Seattle Times, 16 Feb 2013 – DURING the great welfare-reform debate of 1996, Republican leadership in Congress sought mandatory drug testing for recipients as a controversial but core plank of their plan to give each state flexibility to design its own path from welfare to work. They lost that battle, but won their larger goal – ending welfare as an entitlement – when President Clinton signed the landmark legislation.
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