31.   After the ceremony Sunday, Bunning spoke about his work in Washington, including his having voted for passage of a welfare bill last week.

32.   All this stuff about losing the vocabulary of Democratic change and winding up with a welfare bill not to his liking casts mystifying psychobabble over the actual events.

33.   Alexander says the welfare bill passed by Republicans in Congress is too prescriptive.

34.   Already this week, haste, ideology and politics conspired to produce a dreadful outcome in the form of a punitive welfare bill.

35.   Alexander retorted that the welfare bill Gramm, Dole and others had backed would have imposed thousands of needless rules on the states.

36.   Both are in response to a stringent welfare reform bill that Clinton promised to improve even as he signed it into law.

37.   Bradley voted against the welfare reform bill signed by the president, thinking it was wrong to turn over welfare to the states.

38.   But a separate welfare bill could be.

39.   But he voted for the welfare bill that sailed through Congress last week after President Clinton endorsed it.

40.   But despite his effort, one woman kept shouting out her protest of the welfare bill and of U.S. sanctions against Iraq and Cuba.