Scott Klug: “Mr. Speaker, of course politics did not have anything to do with the radio address, did it? But this is how it was…”

“Mr. Speaker, of course politics did not have anything to do with the radio address, did it? But this is how it was played back home. We have heard a lot of quotes about exactly what it was the President said, but look what it said in the headlines in a Wisconsin paper. ``Wisconsin Welfare Plan Okayed By Clinton.'' When the President goes on the radio and says he is for something, like my colleague from Wisconsin, Mr. Roth, I assume that means he is for something. And the dilemma is essentially saying we are going to give 30 days so that we can review it is because, as we have seen in the past, and as the 19 States now know, 5 of them with Democratic Governors, Washington will take forever to modify and change plans. My colleague from California [Ms. Waters], asked me if I had read the Wisconsin waiver and the Wisconsin welfare bill, and the answer is yes. Unfortunately, she would not yield to me. The question is, has she read California's welfare bill and does she realize that California has waivers pending? In fact, this is the headline from the San Francisco Chronicle: ``Welfare Overhaul Stymied in D.C., Critics Complain.'' Not only is Wisconsin waiting for the bureaucrats to wake up, California is waiting and Florida and Texas and 14 other States.”