<p><img src="images/stories/TheExaminer.jpg" border="0" alt="The Examiner" hspace="7" align="left" />Obama administration officials have insisted that their decision to grant states waivers to redefine work requirements for welfare recipients would not “gut” the landmark 1996 welfare reform law. But a <a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/106346145/CRS-Memo-ABAWD">new repor</a>t from the Congressional Research Service obtained by the Washington Examiner suggests that the administration’s suspension of a separate welfare work requirement has already helped explode the number of able-bodied Americans on food stamps. <strong><span style="color: #0000ff;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></strong><a href="http://washingtonexaminer.com/crs-report-number-of-able-bodied-adults-on-food-stamps-doubled-after-obama-suspended-work-requirement/article/2508430#.UFm26o1lREN" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: #0000ff;"><span style="font-size: small;">READ</span></span></strong></a></p>