Bruce F. Vento: “I was one that voted against the transfer of this money, because I am concerned about housing and the problems that we…”

“I was one that voted against the transfer of this money, because I am concerned about housing and the problems that we have had with the ownership and the goals of ownership of housing in the Nation and did not want to take away from the FHA program. I know it was a tough vote at that time. It makes it a little tougher now to come back and realize that the scoring change is such that it does not damage FHA, but at the time clearly it was the impression and the representation that it did affect the FHA and the loan programs. I am pleased to join in finding some transfer and ability to express my concern for the veterans health budget. The important work in terms of keeping those commitments to veterans, at the same time we do not depreciate the goals in terms of FHA housing. I sadly think that housing in this chamber, assisted and other types of ownership housing, is not something that appears to be very high in the priority agenda of this House. I wish we could work to gain much better support, but unfortunately today that is not the case and I think we are losing a lot of assisted and public housing which is very important to the constituents of my district.”