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Bruce F. Vento: “I must say that this program has been in the starting gate and hardly has gotten started because it has been fighting…”

On the recordJuly 16, 1997
I must say that this program has been in the starting gate and hardly has gotten started because it has been fighting sort of a rear guard action since its passage...these programs are enormously important, they are in place, they should be funded. It is authorized at $400 million. This is a completely reasonable agreement to fund at $125 million unless we find out something substantive that is flawed in terms of the systemic nature of the program...I do not think anyone has argued that the dollars that are going into the program are fundamentally being misused or abused...I think that we need to look beyond that, and the embellishment of this does not justify sentencing the program to another year in purgatory as it would be. Why punish the low income, low wealth communities that need the help?
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Bruce F. Vento
Minnesota
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Discussing the importance and funding of a specific program during a House floor debate.

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