Kendrick Meek: “I am standing to support the Mollohan amendment, and having come from an area such as the one I represent, many of the…”

“I am standing to support the Mollohan amendment, and having come from an area such as the one I represent, many of the arguments that I hear regarding housing I have to refute many times because of my experience in working with low-income people. I think that our chairman and our ranking member have done a very credible job, Mr. Chairman, at the level of the subcommittee funding. But there are numerous funding problems in the bill which I have alluded to before. The one that I have specific interest in at this point is the lack of funding to help the poorest of the poor people obtain decent housing. I want Members to look at this picture and put a face on it, as I have to almost every day in my district. That is, we are living in the era of the greatest economic prosperity that this Nation has ever had, but even this economic boom has created a housing crisis for many Americans.”