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walking. he smiled and turned back. i came back today, trieded to get more answers. did you get them or referred to hhs again? i will talk to hh s and just for the record you know a lot of administrations and with this administration, i heard your lead in talking about the most trance parent administration, all administrations hunker down and bunker down. it s about holding information tight, releasing what you want to release. that is with all administrations but this is a very big issue and they re trying to make sure one they re getting it right and two, they re getting giving out accurate information they re playing damage control. they did not understand the bigness of this whole thing with people were people have overwhelmed the system. the administration by just the sheer ground swell of the
authority to waive work requirement, g.a.o. issued a second finding saying no previous h.h.s . under president of either party claimed the right to waive it. saying, h.h.s. has never before granted waivers of program rules. h.h.s. has previously told states no waiver authority existed, only the obama administration has claimed this authority. the two parties had very different views of the debate. the we re here today to head off at the pass president obama and the administration attempt to gut the welfare reform work requirement. this debate isn t about process or even policy. it s about politics. pure poll sicks. impure politics. what started this was a july 19 memorandum against h.h.s. where it claimed it had the authority to waive compliance and allows states to try other message. democrats note kathleen sebelius pledged to only approve waivers that would increase the number working. they can get a waiver of
the congressional research service said after the rule was suspended it surged from 1.9 million to 3.9 million. that s what house republicans are trying to avoid on a largeer scale. about an hour ago we received the results of a rare vote in congress, formal motion to disapprove the recent moves by the obama administration to offer more waivers. this time, in the welfare program. chief washington correspondent jim angle has the latest. reporter: after impassioned debate house voted to disapprove actions by health and human services sewn as waiverring the welfare work requirement. the g.o.p. went in tooted s vote armed with two reports in the government accountability office. when previous h.h.s . secretaries were asked about the possibility of waiving work requirements, h.h.s . responded that, and i quote, the department does not have authority toway any of the provisions. in addition to saying h.h.s. lacks the legal