...Long ago in an earlier lifetime, I knew someone who worked for CRS. They take their job very seriously: they make every effort to get their facts right, their legal opinions right, their numbers right, etc., etc., with no partisan bias. If they say the bill would strip welfare‑to‑work requirements, you can pretty much depend on it: the bill would strip welfare‑to‑work requirements.
The bill — sponsored by Reps. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), Joseph J. Heck, (R-NV), and Buck McKeon (R-CA) and called the Workforce Investment Improvement Act — would allow states to lump moneys from state-federal employment and training programs, including Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, into a single fund. But by doing so, it could essentially nullify federal eligibility requirements for those programs, according to the Congressional Research Service, the nonpartisan analysis arm of Congress which reviewed the bill.
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If you recall, that is exactly what they've been falsely accusing Obama of doing: gutting welfare‑to‑work.
I remember a cartoon early in the 2003 Iraq war in which GeeDubya Bush is complaining that he just can't get enough intelligence. Actually, the problem seems to afflict the whole blessed GOP.
