Senator Patty Murray, D-Wash Bush, who campaigned as a less-government-is-good-government Republican, is so convinced of this that he is pressing Congress to add money to promote marriage in a bill that reauthorizes the 1996 Welfare Reform Act.

• 作为一名共和党人，布什在竞选总统的时候就强调"政府管的少就是管的好"。 为了贯彻这一点，他积极要求国会重新批准1996年出台的《福利改革法案》，并增加拨款来鼓励婚姻。