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Rick Lazio: “This is a message of empowerment. This is a message of accountability. What we are saying with public housing reform is…”

On the recordJuly 16, 1998
This is a message of empowerment. This is a message of accountability. What we are saying with public housing reform is that it is time to stop wasting money, throwing money at the public housing authorities that have failed year after year. Mr. Speaker, in one housing authority in New Orleans, which HUD scores itself, they score it from 1 being the lowest to 100 being the highest, do my colleagues know what that housing authority scores year after year? Not 70 or 80, but 25 and 27. Imagine if our children came home year after year with a scorecard of 27. We would do something about it pretty quickly.
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Rick Lazio
New York
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Discussing public housing reform and accountability during a House floor debate.

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