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    "ocrText": "Children, and the quality of the education they receive, also are targets of federal dollars for school repairs, hiring\nmore teachers, reducing class size and expanding after school programs.\n\"By reaching out and working together, our best days still lie ahead,\" Clinton said. \"This budget proves it.\"\nLOAD-DATE: December 17, 2000\nCopyright 2000 U.P.I.\nUnited Press International\nDecember 16, 2000, Saturday\nSECTION: GENERAL NEWS\nLENGTH: 532 words\nHEADLINE: Clinton hails budget deal, touts welfare reform\nDATELINE: WASHINGTON, Dec. 16\nBODY:\nPresident Bill Clinton Saturday praised social programs in the newly passed budget and reflected on his\nadministration's efforts to reduce welfare rolls, which he said had dropped by 8 million people during his White House\ntenure.\nSpeaking in one of his last weekly radio addresses, Clinton unveiled $200 million in federal grants to 28 states to help\nstate governments cut welfare cases.\n\"I urge states to use these resources to provide the necessar y support -- from child care to transportation to training --\nthat can make a critical difference between welfare checks and paychecks,\" Clinton said.\nClinton also pointed to social programs in the budget deal that he said showed \"our best days still lie ahead. This\nbudget proves it.\"\n\"In this budget, we're also passing our historic new markets and community renewal initiative, the most significant\neffort ever to help hard-pressed communities lift themselves up through private investment and entrepreneurship,\"\nClinton said. \"This initiative will spur billions and billions of dollars in private investment to communities that have not\nyet shared in our nation's great economic revival.\"\nClinton said the budget also included \"vital investments\" in education, one of his top policy priorities and a major\nsticking point in budget negotiations.\n\"With over $900 million dedicated, for the very first time, to school renovation, thousands of local school districts\nfinally will be able to give our children the classrooms they deserve,\" Clinton said. \"We've increased funding by 25\npercent to stay on track to hire 100,000 highly-qualified new teachers, to reduce class size in the early grades.\"\nOn Friday, lawmakers passed the last pieces of the current fiscal year's long overdue budget and adjourned the 106th\nCongress, after agreeing to add modestly to education and health care spending.\nCongress passed a final \"mini-bus\" as opposed to \"omnibus\" -- appropriations bill that includes nearly $130 billion\nfor a series of federal agencies and $109 billion for health and education programs alone. President Clinton has signaled\nthat he will sign it into law, having wrested significant concessions at every step toward final passage.\nLooking back on past budget negotiations, Clinton contrasted the budget deficits of the early 1990s with today's\nsurpluses and said welfare reform, along with fiscal discipline, brought the change."
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