Marty Walsh: “First of all, the expenditures that are suggested are not offset, and that is, in the parlance around here, offset. The…”

“First of all, the expenditures that are suggested are not offset, and that is, in the parlance around here, offset. The idea is that if we offer expenditure changes within the bill, we have to provide funds to back them up, to transfer funds from one account to another. This amendment does not comply, and it does not provide those funds. There is also additional new authorization in the amendment. As the Chairman knows, this is the Committee on Appropriations. The authorizing committee, the Subcommittee on Housing of the Committee on Banking and Financial Services should pass that legislation on to us and then we appropriate the funds. This has not been accomplished. So for those reasons, I believe this amendment is out of order. On the issue of Section 8 housing vouchers, I would just like to make a couple of points. We have provided $13.275 billion for Section 8 housing vouchers, $4 billion above last year. No matter how much money we provide, the administration wants more. No matter how much money our side is willing to spend on any item, the other side is always ready to spend more. But these expenditures need to be based on reality.”