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So what's your point? Why didn't Bush campaign in 1998 and get it started in 1988-1992?

Or does this have to do with your latest conspiracy theory?


Clinton campaigned, clinton started as soon as he got in office, Clinton delivered.

Domestic Policy Council, Bruce Reed, Welfare Reform (1993-2001) Subject File

When President Clinton entered the White House, he soon established an interagency group, the White House Working Group on Welfare Reform, Family Support, and Independence (1993-1994), in order to carry out his campaign promise “to end welfare as we know it.” The Working Group was co-chaired by Bruce Reed, Deputy Assistant (later Assistant) to the President for Domestic Policy (1993-1997) and Director of the Domestic Policy Council (1997-2001), and two senior staff members from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), David Ellwood and Mary Jo Bane. The Working Group contained employees from various government agencies, bureaus, and offices (HHS, Treasury, Office of Management and Budget…). The Working Group presented their proposal to the President in the spring of 1994, and the Work and Responsibility Act of 1994 was introduced to Congress in June of that year. After several versions, many changes, two vetoes, and a number of titles, the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) was signed by President Clinton in August 1996. Bruce Reed, Welfare Reform Series consists of four subseries: two subject files (one large and one small), specs/drafts of the Working Group's proposal from 1993-1994, and miscellaneous briefing books, binders, and reports. The Welfare Reform files include material pertaining to legislative strategy, analysis of state plans, child support, speeches, rollout of the Working Group's proposal, and various drafts of welfare reform bills authored by the Working Group, Congress, and public/private organizations. The files contain incoming correspondence, reports and articles, memos, handwritten notes, legislative bills, and various printed material. Also included are memos to the President prepared by Bruce Reed, other White House staff, and various governmental agencies (primarily HHS) and memos between members of the Working Group, all concerning welfare reform. Other documents include background information for welfare events, hearings, and meetings, Working Group agendas and notes, talking points, testimony and briefing books before House and Senate committees, financing ideas and costs, polls, vetoes, welfare case histories, and news clippings. The collection also contains material related to the granting of welfare waivers in a number of states, most prominently Wisconsin. In addition to information about the efforts to pass White House and Congressional welfare reform bills, there is also material about the effects of the final bill, the PRWORA, in memos, letters, and reports originating from the White House, HHS, and nongovernmental entities. The series also contains various publications about welfare reform, authored by federal and private organizations. The series is divided into two parts: Bruce Reed's welfare reform files from 1993-2001 (a large subject file) and Reed's welfare reform files from 1993-1994 (a small subject file, specs/drafts of the Working Group's proposal, and miscellaneous reports and publications).