51.   Engler, a conservative Republican, has been a strong advocate of Congressional Republican efforts to turn federal welfare spending into block grants to the states.

52.   Federal and state officials said Roberto is a typical example of the children they were told to remove from the federal welfare program known as Supplemental Security Income.

53.   Federal welfare programs exclude illegal aliens.

54.   Feinstein called for wide-ranging reforms of federal welfare programs, but the GOP challenger called it pointless reform.

55.   Federal welfare programs have been far from perfect, as we all well know.

56.   Federal welfare spending in New York could fall by half.

57.   Federal welfare was started during the Depression to save children no matter where they lived.

58.   Federal welfare reformers are going back to the drawing board after studies of each of the rival proposals found serious structural or political flaws.

59.   Franco stressed that the waiver would help the authority serve tenants who are struggling with cuts in benefits mandated by the new federal welfare law.

60.   Further cuts in welfare programs are likely down the road, depending on the final shape of federal welfare legislation.