1.   From the left, he is accused of political cowardice in signing the Republican welfare overhaul with its roiling undercurrents of race.

2.   Ashcroft persuaded Dole to include the provision in the Republican welfare reform bill.

3.   But Mrs. Edelman is vigorously opposed to a Republican welfare plan Clinton has endorsed because it would remove welfare benefits from poor children if their mothers refused to work.

4.   By signing the Republican welfare bill, Clinton had bolstered his poll numbers and thwarted the race-baiters so essential to Republican campaigns.

5.   Child advocates are up in arms about the child care provisions of Republican welfare reform proposals, and their potential effect on Connecticut.

6.   Clinton, in vetoing the Republican welfare bills, said they would have ended the federal entitlement to benefits.

7.   Critics contend the overall Republican welfare package would end popular federal programs such as free breakfasts for poor children.

8.   Democrats have repeatedly denounced the Republican welfare proposals as mean-spirited and cruel to children.

9.   For example, Right to Life officials said that to discourage abortions, they would oppose Republican welfare proposals that would cut off support of teen-age mothers.

10.   He knows that Head Start could be finished -- if Republican welfare reformers get their way.