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Rick Lazio: “The dysfunctional housing authorities would effectually be defunded under the plan that we have before us. Those that…”

On the recordMay 8, 1996
The dysfunctional housing authorities would effectually be defunded under the plan that we have before us. Those that are highly functioning will be given the flexibility that they all request and all deserve.
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Rick Lazio
New York

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Discussing housing authority reforms during a House floor debate.

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