Rick was one of the principal fighters for welfare reform and even wrote the bill, when he was a rep., and continued to fight as senator.
Rick, the fighter, gets things done!
“Some of those high profile votes include his support for No Child Left Behind in 2001, which greatly expanded the federal government’s role in education. He supported the massive new Medicare drug entitlement in 2003 that now costs taxpayers over $60 billion a year and has almost $16 trillion in unfunded liabilities. He voted for the 2005 highway bill that included thousands of wasteful earmarks, including the Bridge to Nowhere.”
http://www.clubforgrowth.org/whitepapers/?subsec=137&id=902
More here:
http://www.rightspeak.net/2012/02/rick-santorum-and-his-love-affair-with.html
http://thedmonline.com/article/rick-santorum-representing-worst-republicans-1990