Rick Lazio: “let me just say I think, to paraphrase a 20th century President, we have nothing to fear but fear itself on this, and…”

“let me just say I think, to paraphrase a 20th century President, we have nothing to fear but fear itself on this, and what we want to do is create the sense of ideas of innovation. We should not be afraid of new ideas, we should not be afraid of allowing a local elected leader to come forward and say I think I have a better way of doing it, I think we can develop a better partnership, I think that maybe in our community, in our community, that the fixed way of having a public housing authority may not be necessarily the best way. We may want to have a joint venture with the public housing authority, we may want to have not-for-profits work along with them or community development corporations or resident-inspired groups. The idea behind this provision of the bill would be subject to the provisions of protection that are already in the bill to provide the level of creativity, innovation, and this amendment would strike that, and for those reasons, Mr. Chairman, I would urge a ``no'' vote.”