Political Quotes

“Mr. Chairman, this is a further effort to get some of the unnecessary bureaucratic gobbledegook out of this bill. Last year we debated at length in this bill an effort by the majority to raise the amount of rent that tenants could be forced to pay. The maximum is now 30 percent. The majority was determined to raise it. I have to say to those Members on the majority side who were here last year and a few on our side who loyally voted with the chairman and supported him on vote after vote to raise the rents, maybe they feel a little bit perturbed that that was all in vain because that part has now been given up. I admire the fact that this bill no longer tries to raise the rents of the poor. Instead it tries to complicate them unduly and unnecessarily for the low income people and for the housing authorities. We agreed last year, although I must say the chairman of the subcommittee last year was determined not to be agreed with, when we kept agreeing with him, but we agreed that having the 30 percent be a minimum as well as a maximum was a bad idea.”