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Scott Klug: “I would encourage the gentlewoman as a member of the President's party to issue waivers more quickly. However, let me…”

On the recordJune 6, 1996
I would encourage the gentlewoman as a member of the President's party to issue waivers more quickly. However, let me say fundamentally that waivers are not welfare reform, waivers are a lifeline for bureaucracies to rewrite and to change and negotiate and manipulate and modify documents that are written back at the State of Wisconsin. Again, in terms of the subject of openness, 30 legislative hearings and town meetings, 120 hours of debate, 2,000 residents who participated. There was great discussion in Wisconsin, there was a recorded vote and majorities in both the assembly and the Senate, two-thirds in one, three-quarters in the other, voted on and passed this piece of legislation and the Governor signed it into law.
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Scott Klug
Republican · Wisconsin
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Discussing the importance of waivers in welfare reform legislation in Wisconsin.

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