Kendrick Meek: “it is really heart wrenching and heartbreaking when a point of order is usually coming from the floor regarding some of…”

“it is really heart wrenching and heartbreaking when a point of order is usually coming from the floor regarding some of the things that people back home do not even understand. Someone who does not have housing, someone who is living in a run-down dilapidated community knows nothing about the nomenclature of this Congress. That nomenclature includes offsets, it includes point of order, it includes authorize. All of those types of terminology is based on a stalling technique to hold back growth in the cities. Now, our cities are rundown, they are dilapidated, and we need to do something about it. That is what Community Development Block Grant money is supposed to do. Now, I have fought very hard on this floor for CDBG funds. They are being dissipated with everything but what they were designed to do. Many times that is by design. But, anyway, I want to increase the funding in the bill for Community Development Block Grant programs, and I want to increase it by $395 million to raise the funding level in the bill to $4.9 billion. That is the President's request.”