CSPAN Washington This Week August 20, 2016
Monday marks the 20th anniversary of the 1996 welfare law, signed by president bill clinton. A special program looks back at the Senate Debate over the law. The current welfare system has failed the families it was intended to serve. I do not know many people who want to humiliate themselves standing in a line and waiting for their welfare check. Yes, they are druggies and drunks, they are out there. No question about it. But a lot of those people are simply people who have not yet discovered a way out of their misery and poverty. We have decided that the state and the governors and legislatur...