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Kendrick Meek: with great respect to the housing chairperson, I would want to know, since the gentleman is the chairman of the…

On the recordApril 6, 2000
with great respect to the housing chairperson, I would want to know, since the gentleman is the chairman of the authorizing committee, and the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. Capuano) and the gentlewoman from California (Ms. Waters) both have very, very strong and valid arguments, why will the gentleman not lead the effort to authorize a program to fit the needs of the people everyone is trying to get under CDBG? In that way the gentleman will authorize it, and he will get monies and resources to do it. But if the gentleman rides on the back of other programs, he is going to have problems.
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Kendrick Meek
Florida

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Questioning the housing chairperson about authorizing a program for CDBG needs.

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