We need a conservative welfare reform initiative that is focused on putting people back to work and ensures taxpayer money is only spent on programs that have been proven to work.

The issue I highlight in the book is welfare reform.

The old welfare system was hurting people by discouraging work and marriage. Welfare reform, and now this legislation, will build on the understanding that work and strong families are the foundation upon which we build our future.

What Clinton severed with his welfare reform was the obligation of the federal government to step in when the states failed and to monitor these programs.

While the rest of the country is still talking about welfare reform, Texas is implementing it.

Some people think that welfare reform should have hurt Bill Clinton with black voters.