Political Quotes

“I am providing this statement to explain the Reforming Disaster Recovery Act of 2019 (H.R. 3702), as ordered reported to the House of Representatives by the Committee on Financial Services, along with additional amendments made since committee consideration: The Community Development Block Grant (CDBG), administered by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), is the federal government's largest and most widely available source of financial assistance for state and local government-directed neighborhood revitalization, housing rehabilitation, and economic development activities. One of the national objectives of the CDBG program allows communities and states to use program funds to address serious and immediate public health and safety threats. Accordingly, Congress has used the CDBG program's framework to provide additional assistance (CDBG-DR) for state and local recovery activities in the wake of presidentially- declared disasters. In response to a disaster, Congress must pass each supplemental CDBG-DR appropriation on a case-by- case basis. To date, Congress has appropriated $87 billion in CDBG-DR assistance. CDBG-DR grants are generally governed by the underlying Housing and Community Development Act of 1974, (42 U.S. 5301 et. seq) (``CDBG statute'') and rules and the relevant supplemental appropriation act.…”