I support this amendment also. I am tired of poor people and working people having to go and find lawyers and pay them. Who can afford $250 and $300 an hour? The average poor person certainly cannot. So you are right, let us put it on the entity that is trying to pull these tricks in the first place to take these properties away from these citizens. So I support the amendment.
Maxine Waters: “I support this amendment also. I am tired of poor people and working people having to go and find lawyers and pay them.…”
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