Date: November 7, 1979
Subject: Welfare Reform
Description: Archer (R-TX) motion to recommit the bill to the Ways and Means Committee, with instructions to report it back with an amendment establishing a demonstration program providing eight states and three counties with block grants to run welfare programs according to their own design, and to allow all states to establish their own work requirements for welfare recipients, as long as they did not require work from parents who were caring for children under six years old, unless adequate day care was available.
Result: Motion to Recommit Failed, 200-205
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