The bottom line is that president Obama … recently gave states more tools to help states move more people from welfare to work as quickly as possible,"  Markell said. "The basic idea is this: Welfare reform rquirees states to move people from federal assistance to work, but some parts of the program are not as efficient as they ought to be, and sometimes caseworkers end up spending more time doing paperwork than helping people find work. So for years states have asked the federal government for flexibility for more successful programs that better use our resources."

Cutter concluded, "I think it's pretty clear that the ad the Romney-Ryan campaign is running right now -- that they are spending millions of dollars to put on the air, that Mitt Romney personally signed off on -- is a complete and utter lie."

The Romney campaign responded to the Cutter conference call with a statement claiming Obama has undone welfare reform, even though no waivers have been granted.     NOTE ----Romney had supported increased waiver authority in 2005, when he was governor of Massachusetts......    SO what else is new with this guy....he's a complete fraud.