Scott Klug: “One more time, if I can, colleagues, let us put this in some kind of perspective. There is a simple fundamental question…”

“One more time, if I can, colleagues, let us put this in some kind of perspective. There is a simple fundamental question in front of this body today: ``Do you trust a State legislature and a Governor to run their own affairs?'' And I think the answer fundamentally has to be ``yes.'' And my colleague, the gentleman from Wisconsin [Mr. Gunderson], hit the nail on the head. I mean, sure, these waiver applications may get approved, but only if it gets rewritten and gets changed and gets modified and it gets capitalized, and at the end of the day we do not have Wisconsin's welfare plan, we have Washington's welfare plan. But my colleagues could put a Wisconsin sweatshirt on, and it does not make them a badger inside. The question is: ``If you rewrite a third of these regulations or a quarter of the regulations or half of the regulations, at the end of the day it's not Wisconsin's plan.'' We have the first comprehensive plan passed in the country, two-thirds of the State assembly, three-quarters of the State senate, the Governor's opponent for Governor the last time around, the Senate minority leader, a larger majority of Democrats as well as Republicans. The fundamental question today is: ``Whose values are you going to trust: the people sitting at the lunch counter in Wisconsin or the bureaucrats down the road on `Dependence Avenue,' '' as the gentleman from Michigan [Mr. Hoekstra] appropriately characterized it?”