Political Quotes

“I want to respond and say no, I can see that the gentleman has defined it as not an unfunded mandate. It does require them to spend more money out of the same pot they are getting. My experience with a lot of housing authorities is they are underfunded already. But it also requires them to spend money on a lot of bureaucracy and paperwork. It does not provide one job trainer. It does not provide one person to find anybody any employment. What it does is mandate them to sit down and sign contracts with people, people who have no particular knowledge about this, and to say here is when I promise to move out of public housing. I promise to do this. I am all for these goals, but they ought to be treated as real. This notion that wishing will make it so and that having an overburdened housing authority administer of people, sign these contracts with the tenants when nothing in here adds anybody a job, it does not create a job, it does not provide a job counselor, it is just a feel-good bureaucratic requirement of the sort that if it were not dealing with poor people and housing, Republicans would be belittling. But because it deals with the poor people and housing, they are all for it.”