Political Quotes

“My friend, the chairman of the committee, has just expanded, would like to expand, rental assistance so that they pull in more people making more money, up to $40,000 that they could make under his proposal. One would be able to earn $40,000 and get rental assistance. What he does not do is protect those, no, he does not protect those who really need it, who make very little money, 30 percent of median income, and this is very interesting. At the same time that he is talking about reducing Government's involvement in peoples' lives, at the same time that they are talking about shrinking Government, he just opened it up so that people earning $40,000 could avail themselves of rental assistance. Yet we know that it is those who earn very little money who need it, those who earn very little money that can go out in the marketplace and find a home, those women and children who desperately need to get assistance. He is squeezing them out of the market. This is unbelievable. I am surprised that he would take this approach. It is indeed not to be supported.”