claim: rick santorum "reformed welfare."
author: rick santorum
evidence_1: jan 12, 2012 ... “i wrote the welfare reform bill in the contract with america. i was the ranking member on that subcommittee. and when i came to the senate, through a quirk, i ended up managing the bill on the floor of the united states senate and working with president clinton and getting a bill signed after he vetoed it ...
evidence_2: when congress passed landmark welfare reform legislation in 1996, rick santorum, then a republican senator from pennsylvania, voted for the bill. now santorum says that pres. obama has gutted that reform and done away with rules from the 1996 law that require welfare recipients to eventually get a job: "this summer ...
evidence_3: sep 20, 2017 ... but he's long been drawn to the health care debate, and santorum thought he had something to add to republican repeal efforts. the block grant approach comes from a major welfare reform law that santorum helped author in 1996. the reform, signed by democratic president bill clinton, stands as the ...
evidence_4: mar 8, 2012 ... during his first u.s. senate campaign in 1994, santorum made unwed mothers and welfare reform regular features of his stump speech. recently, mother jones reported that the candidate had once argued that single mothers were “breeding more criminals” and advocated that they should be denied ...
evidence_5: aug 7, 2015 ... santorum also explicitly called for instituting work requirements and time limits on these programs, which were also part of welfare reform. snap already has work requirements, however. medicaid and housing assistance, on the other hand, don't have them. but no other health coverage program requires ...