Political Quotes

“I am reclaiming my time because the gentleman simply refuses to answer a plain English question. No, there is no disincentive, and I would ask the gentleman please to abide by the rules. The point is he does not want to answer the question. I did not ask him the question he answered. I am not mandating any increase. He talks about a disincentive. The disincentive came from Reagan, Gramm, and Latta. What we are doing is to say, no, there is no floor, they can charge less if they want to. We are saying not that rents have to be percentage based, but that 30 percent is the limit. They can use whatever formula and rules they want, but they cannot go above 30 percent. And the gentleman is going to protect tenants by not letting them have pets, he would protect tenants by not having more of them on the authority, and he will protect tenants in the most bizarre logic of all by allowing the housing authorities to raise the rents without limit. We are not talking about mandating 30 percent as the basis. We are saying whatever basis they have, it cannot for working people go above 30 percent. The gentleman's amendment says welfare recipients cannot go above 30 percent, but working people, there is no limit.”