1.   Early in the welfare debate, assorted government agencies began putting it about that the teen-age birth rate was dropping.

2.   And in the current welfare debate, Nina Davis -- a poor, black single mother with seven kids -- became a lightning rod.

3.   As they parse the technicalities, officials are contemplating a new chapter in the welfare debate, one that will be waged outside of Washington.

4.   Asked after Dingell had left whether they had an opinion on the recent welfare debate, the Otts said they had not been following it.

5.   A particular sore point is both the substance and the language of the welfare debate, in which people on aid have been likened to wolves and alligators.

6.   But as the welfare debate in the House demonstrated, the method of budget calculus takes on immense significance when the government is divided into opposing ideological camps.

7.   But the Republican Congress is disinclined to reopen the welfare debate.

8.   But the abortion issue is figuring in the welfare reform debate, too.

9.   Child support has become an integral part of the welfare debate here and in other state capitals because so many single parents wind up on the public dole.

10.   For Evans, the answer to the welfare debate lies somewhere in the middle.