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From now on, our nation's answer to this great social challenge will no longer be a never-ending

cycle of welfare. It will be the dignity, the power, and the ethic of work. Today we are taking

an historic chance to make welfare what it was meant to be, a second chance, not a way of life.

The bill I am about to sign, as I have said many times, is far from perfect, but it has come a very long way.

Congress sent me two previous bills that I strongly believe failed to protect our children and did too little to move people from welfare to work.

I vetoed both of them.

This bill had broad bipartisan support and is much, much better on both counts.

The new bill restores America's basic bargain of providing opportunity and demanding and return responsibility.

That was Bill Clinton 25 years ago just before he signed into law, the Welfare Reform Act of 1996.

It was a victory that enabled many people to curb their reliance on government assistance by placing

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