On the recordJune 6, 1996
We have a very important fundamental choice before us today. To what degree do we trust the citizens of Wisconsin to make their own decision about welfare reform and to what degree do we think that Wisconsin's plan needs to be modified, changed, stapled, amended, or put through a blender by Washington bureaucrats? Here is the fundamental point. The plan passed in the Wisconsin legislature 73 to 25, an essentially two-thirds majority in the State assembly. Republicans and Democrats. All Republicans and a majority of Democrats. The Wisconsin State Senate? Seventy-five percent of people in the Wisconsin State Senate voted for the plan; 27 yes, 6 no. Three-quarters Republicans and Democrats were for what President Clinton called Wisconsin's bold welfare experiment.
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