NAN A. S. HAYWORTH: “Mr. Speaker, I come to the well of this House today to voice my strong support for H.R. 3219. Washington has changed in…”

“Mr. Speaker, I come to the well of this House today to voice my strong support for H.R. 3219. Washington has changed in a great many ways since many of us came to the Congress of the United States in January 1995. Chief in those changes has been this recognition, that one size does not fit all. Nowhere do we have greater evidence of this truth than when it comes to the challenge of housing for native Americans. I represent the Sixth District of Arizona. More Indians live on reservation land in the Sixth District of Arizona than in any other district in the contiguous United States. We could use the bureaucratic euphemism that their housing is substandard, and yet that description in itself is sorely lacking; it indeed is substandard. But with this legislation today, we acknowledge the fact that Indian housing, based on the solemn and, dare I say, sacred trust obligations of the treaties, will be recognized to be profoundly different than the public housing programs in metropolitan areas.”