Bruce F. Vento: “this is, I suppose in some minds, a technical amendment. What the bill has done is provides the flexibility for the…”

“this is, I suppose in some minds, a technical amendment. What the bill has done is provides the flexibility for the Secretary, based on findings by the local housing management authority, to change the 50 percent very low-income definition to raise it or lower it, depending upon local conditions, and to, on the 80 percent, and this really deals with the percentages in the bill, on the 80 percent, to change that, in fact; either raise or lower it, depending on local circumstances and findings. Mr. Chairman, I have no objection to the Secretary having this flexibility. In fact, I think that it is necessary. I am concerned that the bill appears to limit this solely to the local housing management's findings. I think it is clear to me that since the Secretary has to approve it, that indeed he has and should set some standards as to what those findings are.”