Barney Frank

My clear understanding is the gentleman from Ohio was talking about 30 percent below median, not 50 percent, and 50 percent is the accurate people, people not being excluded below 30 percent.

Again reclaiming my time, how does this exclude them? I think the gentleman misstates when he says that they will be excluded. I think he is inaccurately suggesting that the amendment of my friend from Massachusetts will totally restrict…

We are in the process, we are in the process of trying to determine what the majority determines. The majority, until it has voted on this, has not spoken yet. But finally I have to say I understand the gentleman can feel beleaguered…

But many of us have also talked about substantial reductions, the space station, the B-2 bomber, areas that we consider----

I have to say to my friend with all sincerity, invoking the President is not an argument. Invoking the President, with whom you are free to disagree and disagree frequently, the fact that the gentleman coincide on this one, as the…

The gentleman seems to have forgotten that his side forgot to do a budget this year. He not only forgot about NASA, he forgot to do a budget. There has been no 602(b) allocation, so his whole argument is nonsensical. What the gentleman…

The gentleman may have voted to abolish it, but that does not entitle him to abolish it in his mind and act as if it was abolished. The fact is that the gentleman just said, if you give more money to HUD, it must come under the 602(b)…

The fact is that there has been no 602(b) allocation this year. The fact is that the gentleman from New York comes up here on the wholly inaccurate premise that this must come from HUD, VA, EPA or the unstated NASA, which he has implicitly…

I would be glad to have my amendment say that this does not take effect until we have no bad housing projects. Once that happens, then this could take effect.

I am going to propose an amendment later on that we have a tenants' referendum on these things. I do not doubt the sincerity of my colleagues in insisting that the work requirement and the self-sufficiency contract are really what the…

They are going to transition to where? The gentleman keeps saying they are going to transition to somewhere. He said before, we are going to spend all this money, it is just to renew the section 8, it is these same number of units. And…

When they talk about the budget deal, are they talking about the renewal of section 8's? And does the gentleman really consider the renewal of section 8's new resources for housing?

We ought to remember that for the 12 years before 1993, the Republicans controlled HUD, and for 8 of those years, under President Reagan, the most corrupt and inefficient Cabinet secretary in recent memory, Secretary Pierce, was in charge…

I wanted to ask, because these are laudable goals to help them get out, I assume that means a job, what are the housing authorities going to do? How are the housing authorities going to do job training? Then we are talking about a lot…

To give the gentleman from Iowa his due, he has an alternative argument, which is once there is a vote of Federal funds to a local government, then the unfunded mandate issue disappears. His argument is that because the local governments…

Yes, I deny it, Mr. Chairman. I will tell the gentlewoman this, I have been working on this bill. I was originally a cosponsor of Mr. Rohrabacher's bill. We made some changes. I have met with people in biotech. I have met with people in…

Reclaiming my time, what we finally should do is to give credit to the literary hand that runs us all. Clearly this was motivated by the purloined letter, where the way to hide it was to leave it out in public, because, apparently, the…

I think we are entitled to point out that this was not such a big secret and that notion I will stress for this reason. Sure there is reason to debate this. I have agreed with some of the points Mr. Rohrabacher made, and I have supported…

Reclaiming my time, this is very sneaky. Not only is the Commerce Department signing secret agreements, but they are then publicizing their secret agreements to throw people off the track of the fact that they had a secret agreement. I…

No, the universities are not supporting the committee bill, they are not supporting the bill of the gentleman from California. He is being unusually reticent. My friend from California is being unusually reticent in leaving his own bill…

I would also say I was a little bit surprised to hear my friend from California worried so much about the rights of people under trade secrets because I had previously in my conversations with him and in his amendment understood him to be…

The question was, if we are published, do we give up our ability to use trade secrets. My answer was, if that was the question, the answer is that any time we go for a patent, we give up the right to go trade secrets. I want to finish the…

If the question was, does publication take away your right to do trade secret, I would have to say I am surprised at the question, because any patent takes away your chance to use trade secret. Publication is not the operational problem…

The point I would make is this: My understanding is that the majority has pulled this bill because we voted for a States rights amendment. The gentlewoman from California offered an amendment to this bill in committee that said it would…

I do not think anyone on our side wants to denigrate the importance of the veterans bill or the Samoan development bill. My question is, why did we not do them yesterday? We are not objecting to doing those bills, but Monday and Tuesday…