31.   He said the president was wrong to approve controversial welfare legislation.

32.   Her fellow Texas Republican, Sen. Phil Gramm, voted against it, because he has vowed to oppose any effort to dismantle the welfare legislation passed last year.

33.   House Republicans are planning to move their own prescription drug plan to the House floor before Memorial Day and are working on new welfare legislation.

34.   House Republicans on Wednesday introduced welfare legislation that would toughen work requirements and promote marriage, kicking off the battle in Congress about the next phase of welfare reform.

35.   I keep wondering who would be helped by the so-called welfare reform legislation that has so much support in Congress and with the public.

36.   Ideally, new welfare legislation should include both realistic work requirements and sufficient money to supply day care and education subsidies for all those who need them.

37.   In addition, he said, the Senate can attach welfare legislation to an omnibus spending bill that seeks to balance the federal budget over the next seven years.

38.   In a budget proposal earlier this month, Clinton affirmed his support for welfare legislation that would end the federal guarantee of cash assistance for poor children.

39.   In an opinion piece in The Washington Post, she pleaded with the president to resist accepting Republican-sponsored welfare legislation.

40.   In his weekly radio address, Clinton praised Congress for agreeing to raise the minimum wage and reaching a new compromise on welfare legislation.