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This was the last day before the Trump Presidencys 100th day. And congress put in less than half a day because there is no trump agenda item alive in congress right now. There is no bill moving anywhere in congress now. No legislative vehicle that is a trump agenda item. We have never seen a 99th day like this for a president. Every president s busiest legislative year is the first year. Its when their power of persuasion over the congress is at its highest. And it only goes down after that. What a president accomplishes in his first year is usually most of what the president will accomplish in his first term. This is so clear historically that when bob woodward chose to write a book entitled the agenda, he decided to focus entirely on a president s first year. And he picked a president with a loaded first year agenda, bill
clinton. At this point in bill clintons first year, the congress was working overtime. At the same time, c ....
Clinton. at this point in bill clinton s first year, the congress was working overtime. at the same time, congress was working on nafta, a giant tax bill which was inside a giant budget bill. they were also working on a world trade agreement and the beginnings of both clinton health care and clinton welfare reform. along with little things like an emergency extension of unemployment insurance. some of those things made it all the way to the finish line and became law in the first year. some in the second year, and some not at all. but they were all important in the first year. they were all being worked on every friday afternoon of the first year of the clinton presidency. and i don t necessarily mean that the house and the senate were in session every friday afternoon, although they were a lot. what i mean is anyone casually following the news could tell you what the clinton agenda was and what parts of it congress was actively working on. ....
It s not true. and you say? well, the the washington post is wrong. and they have always been against welfare reform. i helped write that bill and negotiate it in. the bill specifically provides that you have to be employed in a job in order to collect welfare. and it specifically provides that you may not change or expand the definition of work beyond what is in this bill. obama illegally, illegally it will be reversed by the courts, expanded it to include training, job education, apprenticeship, all kinds of other stuff. bill: didn t he encourage the states to do that? he didn t do it? no, but he did. bill: no, no. he did. because the clinton welfare reform took that power back from the states and said you may not do. this. bill: right. and then he wants the states back the power and say, well, he said do what you want to do. no, no, no, no. he did not say do what you want to do. he said you may consider it work. if it s training, if it s ....
It s not true. and you say? well, the the washington post is wrong. and they have always been against welfare reform. i helped write that bill and negotiate it in. the bill specifically provides that you have to be employed in a job in order to collect welfare. and it specifically provides that you may not change or expand the definition of work beyond what is in this bill. obama illegally, illegally it will be reversed by the courts, expanded it to include training, job education, apprenticeship, all kinds of other stuff. bill: didn t he encourage the states to do that? he didn t do it? no, but he did. bill: no, no. he did. because the clinton welfare reform took that power back from the states and said you may not do. this. bill: right. and then he wants the states back the power and say, well, he said do what you want to do. no, no, no, no. he did not say do what you want to do. he said you may consider it work. if it s training, if it s ....
Pias bologna, we now have slogan for slogan with less than 13 weeks before the election day, shep. r ithepard: carl, the today for welfare as well. that s right. mr. romney is attacking president president obama for executive action taken in july in which the health and human services department suggested that t it was possible that there might be a waiver of work requirements in the 1996 clinton welfare reform, welfare to work law. this is a little bit of mr. romney now talking about what he says is president obama s attempt to gut that program. i hope you understand that president obama just the last few days has tried to reverse that accomplishment by taking the work requirement out of welfare. that is wrong, if i am wrong. if i am president i will put back in welfare. he trying to appeal to moderate to swing voters who ....