Melvin Watt: “Unfortunately, they are playing with a budget the size of a baseball when the size of the need is, at best, the size of…”

“Unfortunately, they are playing with a budget the size of a baseball when the size of the need is, at best, the size of a softball or a soccer ball, or perhaps even a basketball or bigger. The dramatic example of that is in the area of housing. Every single witness has come and said, ``We need more affordable housing in this country.'' Yet, there is nothing that will address that need in this bill. It is not because of the ranking member or the chairman of the Committee, it is because of the big tax cut that has taken all of the money that we should have been spending on low-income housing and affordable housing and sent it back to rich people, leaving poor people in destitute housing. That is a shame for our country.”