Tom Latham: “Thank you, Mr. Quigley.”

I reserve a point of order on the gentleman's amendment. The Acting CHAIR. A point of order is reserved. The gentleman from Michigan is recognized for 5 minutes.

First of all, I want to say thank you to Speaker Boehner and Mr. Hoyer for the kind words earlier and to also express my appreciation to my counterpart here, Mr. Pastor, who has been such a great partner through this whole process. It has…

I reluctantly rise in opposition to the amendment. I very much understand where the gentlewoman is coming from with the tremendous needs that we have today in infrastructure, to have some of this money being diverted to other uses. I…

All this would do is limit the employees of HUD, and it would do nothing to the PHA employees. PHA employees are not HUD employees; and all you are doing is limiting funding to HUD employees, so it would have no effect as far as the PHAs…