Louise Slaughter: “I have the greatest both professional and personal respect and admiration for the chairman of the housing appropriation…”

“I have the greatest both professional and personal respect and admiration for the chairman of the housing appropriation subcommittee and the ranking member... But by their own words, they said they were operating under a constraint, an overly tight allocation. That constraint is grounds enough for voting against the bill because it is much, much too tight in virtually every area. When we look at real cuts, we have had real cuts over the past 6 years in housing program after housing program. But now we are dealing with the rule. What could we do within those tight allocation constraints? We could change some programs that would make money for the government and then we could use them on programs such as housing for the elderly, for the disabled, for the homeless, for the afflicted.”