Rick Lazio: “It is absolutely the responsibility of the committee in terms of oversight. It is absolutely the responsibility of the…”

“It is absolutely the responsibility of the committee in terms of oversight. It is absolutely the responsibility of the inspector general. It is absolutely the responsibility of the General Accounting Office, to the extent that they are directed to report back to Congress, to evaluate the information that is provided. The idea here is to ensure that we have credible, independent information provided so that we can make reasonable judgments, and that is why this bill stands for the independent accreditation system outside of HUD that will report to us and allow us to make decent decisions about what we should do when we have chronic failure. Of course, H.R. 2 speaks to that. We fired the ones that are doing the poor job, and what we should do with those housing authorities that are doing a good job, and again H.R. 2 speaks to this, we should provide more flexibility. But we should be getting additional information upon which we can make judgments.”