Mark Neumann: “we were simply requesting that the people in Wisconsin who had already…”

On the recordApril 8, 1997

we were simply requesting that the people in Wisconsin who had already passed a welfare reform bill, passed the State assembly and the Senate by a wide majority including both Democrats and Republicans, but after we debated this bill for 18 months in Wisconsin, reflected welfare the way the people of Wisconsin wanted to do it with both Democrats and Republicans agreeing, we had to come down here to Washington and ask for permission from a bunch of bureaucrats out here, 900 miles from Wisconsin, ask for their permission to implement what the people of Wisconsin already wanted. What in the world is there that would make us think that the people sitting out here in an office know better than the people in Wisconsin what is right for them? It just does not make sense.

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Mark Neumann

Wisconsin

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govinfo.gov

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Discussing Wisconsin's welfare reform and the need for federal approval.

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Mark Neumann: “we were simply requesting that the people in Wisconsin who had already passed a welfare reform bill, passed the State…”

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