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Kendrick Meek: “I am not speaking against anyone, but it is extremely important that, for principle's sake, that I say that if we want…”

On the recordApril 6, 2000
I am not speaking against anyone, but it is extremely important that, for principle's sake, that I say that if we want these new programs, worthy as they are, then we should appropriate new funds for them. When we get into presently persistent programs that are set aside for low- and minority-income people, then we begin to find the kind of bifurcation we are finding here today: other groups are going to be coming up and ask for the same thing. I am compelled to say to the chairman that even though the gentleman from Oklahoma (Mr. Coburn) and I never agree on anything, in terms of the expansion of this program, he is right in that we must remember these set-asides that we bring into the HOME program in the long run will cause us problems.
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Kendrick Meek
Florida
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Editor's note · Context

Discussing funding for new programs and the implications of set-asides in the HOME program.

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