Political Quotes

“this is a prohibition on a HUD rulemaking effort to eliminate HUD public notice and comment. The HUD recently issued a proposed rule that would, as a practical matter, remove any requirement for HUD to issue public notice and comments. This amendment would prohibit HUD from doing that. The Administrative Procedures Act does not require agencies to issue public notice and comment rulemaking for grant loan programs, but HUD has traditionally deferred to congressional and public interest that HUD programs be developed in an open manner to ensure that the implementation of programs are consistent with congressional intent and receive the benefit of public input and scrutiny. Basically, the requirement for HUD to issue the public notice and comment rulemaking is not an accident. Because of the program abuses at HUD in the late 1960's, HUD chose public notice, this public airing, to get them out of a real crack, to convince people that a change HUD was operating on the up and up. It is critical that they do this because, without public notice and comment rulemaking, HUD can and has designed programs in the past that are inconsistent with congressional intent, not in the best interest of beneficiaries, and, frankly, smell. Last year the inspector general raised some very real questions about the way that empowerment zones had been selected. A lot of compelling questions were raised in that report.…”