Aug 9, 2012 ... A Mitt Romney TV ad claims the Obama administration has adopted “a plan to gut  welfare reform by dropping work requirements. ... Under the new policy, states  can now seek a federal waiver from work-participation rules that, among other  things, require welfare recipients to engage in one of 12 specific ...
Nov 4, 2015 ... John Kasich Pursuing Welfare Policy Republicans Hated In 2012. He's setting up  a stark contrast from Mitt Romney's campaign. By Arthur Delaney. ASSOCIATED  PRESS. Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R) wants this much leeway from federal welfare  rules. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill) ...
Jul 13, 2012 ... “President Obama now wants to strip the established work requirements from  welfare,” Mitt Romney said in a statement. ... and Families, defends the changes  to the law as giving states extra flexibility — flexibility that the administration says  the states themselves have asked the federal government for.
Aug 7, 2012 ... Mitt Romney wants to talk about welfare. A Romney ad opens with a picture of  President Bill Clinton signing the 1996 landmark welfare reform act, which shifted  the program from indefinite ... The memo outlined, using the jargon of a federal  bureaucracy, the kinds of waivers that would be considered.
The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 ( PRWORA) is a United States federal law considered to be a major welfare reform . The bill was a cornerstone of the Republican Contract with America and was  authored by Rep. E. Clay Shaw, Jr. (R-FL-22). President Bill Clinton signed  PRWORA ...
Says Mitt Romney asked for a waiver from federal welfare rules.