Jerry Lewis: “we could push those people out on the street, and remember that 40 percent of those very people living in those…”

“we could push those people out on the street, and remember that 40 percent of those very people living in those facilities, beyond being among the poorest of the poor, are also elderly and disabled, and we cannot find ourselves in that position. But earlier I discussed with the chairman the feasibility of our trying to make changes in the difficulties with section 8, and he asked us to let the authorizing committees have a short, and frankly we are going to have an amendment here that takes out any language that relates to that to respond to that. But there is little doubt that next year we will be here at this time talking about the 1998 bill, and the costs will have escalated because it takes time to get that kind of work through the authorizing process. So it is the elderly and the disabled who are going to be hurt either way, and frankly the people who are currently being served are the ones at greatest risk, and it concerns me that we must protect that population being served first.”