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Melvin Watt: “This is not whether this is a Republican bill or a Democratic bill or a Republican amendment. The unfunded mandates…”

On the recordMay 1, 1997
This is not whether this is a Republican bill or a Democratic bill or a Republican amendment. The unfunded mandates requirement applies to both parties. It applies to this Congress. This is the integrity of our House that is at stake. No. 2, this notion that a public housing authority is not a local government is just defied by the very definitions in the bill itself on page 17, which says that a local housing authority is one authorized by State law to administer choice-based housing. That is a State entity.
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Melvin Watt
North Carolina
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Editor's note · Context

Discussing the implications of unfunded mandates and definitions in housing legislation.

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