111.   Republicans tried to transform the main federal welfare program by requiring welfare recipients to work and discouraging out-of-wedlock births.

112.   She told me she is putting together a task force to assess the impacts of the federal welfare reform bill on California.

113.   Some are immigrants who are here legally but were cut off from food stamps under new federal welfare laws.

114.   Some say battered women have the best chance of winning exemptions because the federal welfare law urges states to grant them special consideration.

115.   State and federal welfare reform, she said, are likely to create additional stress for poorer, single mothers, increasing the chance of maltreatment.

116.   State health officials debated for months whether they even wanted to apply for the grant money, which became available last year under the new federal welfare laws.

117.   Supporters of the new federal welfare bills disagree.

118.   State officials are not even sure the federal welfare law allows them to spend money on immigrants.

119.   That emphasis echoes some federal welfare reform proposals aimed at establishing paternity and extracting child support for out-of-wedlock births.

120.   That limit could be set only if Congress approved the same time constraint in federal welfare legislation now being debated in Washington.