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CONFIDENTIAL
SU - 8th Draft
1/20/71
- 4 -
I urge that the unfinished business of the 91st Congress must be
the first priority of the 92nd.
Over the next two weeks, I will re-submit more than 35 pieces
of proposed legislation on which action was not completed last year.
The most important is welfare reform. I was especially pleased
that with bipartisan cooperation, this was the first bill introduced in the
House of Representatives in yesterday's opening session.
The present welfare system has become a monstrous, consuming
outrage -- an outrage against the community, against the taxpayer, and
particularly against the children it is supposed to help.
Every day the situation grows worse -- and the welfare rolls grow
longer. It was less than a year and a half ago that I proposed my plan
for welfare reform to the Congress. Since that time, the number of
people receiving Aid to Families with Dependent Children has grown by
2 million -- and the annual rate of expenditures has risen by more than
a billion and a half dollars If present trends continue these annual
expenditures will triple in the next five years to more than $15 billion.
But even worse than the cost in terms of money is the cost that
cannot be measured in dollars -- the increase in human despair,
disillusion and disenchantment.
CONFIDENTIAL
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