John Rutherford: “We are going to use $100 million, to use the Senate's number, to influence what should be a local decisionmaking process…”

“We are going to use $100 million, to use the Senate's number, to influence what should be a local decisionmaking process on zoning for affordable housing. We all support affordable housing. That is not really the issue. The issue is who is going to make the zoning decisions within each and every location and jurisdiction throughout this country. We don't believe that it should be the Federal Government imposing its will on local government in those zoning decisions. That should be up to the locals. Madam Chair, I urge all of my colleagues to vote ``no,'' and I reserve the balance of my time.”