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To: Tadsamillionaire who wrote (29)	5/17/2002 4:22:42 PM
From: Tadsamillionaire	Respond to of 1604

The Democratic bill, which failed on a 222-198 vote, would have provided billions more for child care, opened aid to legal immigrants and let states put welfare mothers in education and training programs. The GOP bill mirrored President Bush (news - web sites)'s welfare package, which provides hundreds of millions of dollars to promote marriage and sexual abstinence. After a partisan House debate, Democrats were looking to the Senate, where they hope to get more money for child care, education and training. They also want to restore benefits for legal immigrants, who were cut from aid programs in the massive 1996 welfare overhaul. In the six years since that landmark bill became law, tough new rules and a roaring economy combined to cut the rolls by more than half. Most people who have left welfare are working, making more than they got from welfare but not enough to escape poverty. As Congress renews the program, the question is how to help those who remain on welfare, many with complicated health or other problems, and how to help those who leave the rolls move upward on the economic ladder. Throughout the two-day House debate, united House Republicans reminded Democrats of their dire predictions in 1996 and declared themselves vindicated by overwhelming success. They said the law can be improved if states are pressed to put more people to work. story.news.yahoo.com