“The president is scared of your power, and he wants you to believe your vote does not matter.”
“AI is not going anywhere. It has both promise and peril. I just want us to be thinking critically about this from all angles.”
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On the recordFebruary 15, 2011
The fact of the matter is there will not be a veteran, a homeless vet, that will not get a voucher. The fact of the matter is there are 30,000 vouchers available today. Only 19,000 of those have been used. There are 11,000 vouchers waiting; and the problem basically is with the Department, with HUD and VA, as far as trying to write the rules to actually get these people the vouchers they need. So any kind of characterization that we're putting vets out in the cold is absolutely untrue. You have your opinion, but the facts speak for themselves. Now also we are not reducing any such section 8 vouchers. They will remain. No one is going to be put out anywhere. We maintain those programs for those folks, and to characterize it in any way differently simply is not factual.
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Tom Latham
Iowa
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The speaker addresses the availability of vouchers for homeless veterans and clarifies misconceptions.

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