Bob Dole: “I am going to try a second time today to help the administration. I have not had much luck yet. I started on Bosnia and…”

“I am going to try a second time today to help the administration. I have not had much luck yet. I started on Bosnia and somehow that got derailed. Now I am trying to help the President on public housing. That is all I am trying to do here today. I understand the amendment of the Senator from Minnesota. It just takes the teeth out of it. It says if you do not want to sign a waiver, you can still live in the building; so you can put all the weapons in that tenant's building, whatever you have in mind. It explicitly provides residency, or continued residency, in public housing could not be made contingent on the inclusion of a consent clause in a lease agreement. The Reno-Cisneros letter to President Clinton, on the other hand, does not make exceptions. It does not prohibit public housing officials, nor the tenants themselves, from making residency contingent on the inclusion of a consent clause in a lease agreement. It simply says: A search is lawful if it is conducted pursuant to uncoerced consent. Leases in housing projects, as elsewhere, typically include a standard consent clause permitting the housing authority to conduct routine maintenance inspections and to enter the tenant's apartment in case of emergency. Where crime conditions in the housing development make unit-by-unit inspections essential, similar lease consent clauses could be employed to authorize periodic administration inspections of tenants' units for unlicensed or unauthorized firearms.…”