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Gwen Moore: “Governor Tommy G. Thompson ended welfare as we know it.”

Featuring: Gwen Moore, Democratic | U.S. House, Wisconsin, District 4

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Wisconsin Representative Gwen Moore Criticizes Welfare Reform and TANF Cuts

Published | Video Starts at 00:29

I just want to thank the chairman, the ranking member and all of the witnesses who have appeared here today. I just want to just reflect on 1995, when I was a state senator in Wisconsin. And the honorable Governor Tommy G. Thompson ended welfare as we know it. And of course we know that then President Clinton and Newt Gingrich agreed with it. They ended welfare. We know it. (00:29–00:34)

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Asserts that Governor Tommy G. Thompson ended welfare as it was previously known.

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