Rick Lazio

Let me again urge my colleagues to support this important piece of legislation. It is a complement, not a substitute, for our other tools that are available to combat poverty and substandard housing in rural America. I want to emphasize…

we often lose sight of the positive effect that music, painting, theater, and dance have on our lives and the lives of our children. With that, I rise today as a reminder of the importance of the arts. Beyond the metropolitan theaters and…

I rise in support of title II of the fiscal year 1997 Omnibus Appropriations Act of 1997. Aside from the important resolution of the BIF/SAIF issue, this title includes important bank regulatory relief provisions. I would like to commend…

Mr. Speaker, today I have the pleasure of bringing before this House the Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act of 1996... for native Americans, this may be the most important bill this Congress has considered. The…

I had drafted into this version of the bill, included in the language of the bill a provision that specifically requires the allocation formula to provide for the continued operation and modernization needs of existing housing units. The…

I rise today to speak about trust and the violation of privacy. Two highly publicized unauthorized biographies, one to be written by a Democratic consultant and another by a Republican consultant, are examples of a problem that transcends…

although I rise today in support of this bill, I must admit to experiencing, as Yogi Bera once put it, deja vu all over again. This past spring we passed and the President signed a compromise antiterrorism bill which I supported. There…

I am deeply honored to rise today in support of a bill to redesignate the U.S. Post Office building in Centereach, NY, as the "Rose Y. Caracappa United States Post Office Building." I am proud to be a cosponsor of this bill, and I commend…

I guess, like Congresswoman Clayton, I remember my friend as a little bit of a prankster, someone with a sense of humor who would joke, a man who certainly had dignity and guts, who showed independence and brilliance, but also was not…

as I was leaving the memorial service for the families of the victims of TWA flight 800 yesterday, my heart was touched to see crowds of Long Islanders who could not attend the ceremony lining the roads with signs expressing love and…

The challenge of defining a relationship with this Asian giant has frustrated American policymakers for over a century. The issue before us is not the record of the Chinese regime but whether the denial of MFN is the appropriate vehicle…

this morning we are going to have an opportunity to stand up for the most vulnerable members of society, the disabled and the elderly. There will be an amendment that was debated on the floor yesterday that will be up for a vote. We will…

I greatly respect and appreciate and am gratified for the level of comity that you have not just with the chairman of the subcommittee but also with all of us. If this were a matter of something personal in nature, I would be very glad to…

I just wanted to make some points in reflection with respect to the comments of the gentleman from California, my friend, Mr. Lewis. It is in fact true that it takes some time to develop these projects. As Mr. Lewis said, it takes 18…

I also would note that the House has expressed its will on incremental assistance in a vote of 315 to 105 or 107 overwhelmingly supporting 2406 which has authorized incremental assistance moving forward. For that reason, because the House…

As the chairman knows, there are about 20 Members of Congress, including the gentleman from New York, Congressman Dan Frisa, who have expressed deep concerns about preferencing on securities exchanges. Preferencing enables broker-dealers…

The debate today is really about the future of our children. It is America's children. We must be concerned not only for our own children, but all America's children. Last week on this floor I spoke of the children growing up in public…

We support the compromise language on the Brooke amendment. We do not support the position taken by Congressman Kennedy and Congressman Frank. Both Congressman know this. Massachusetts Housing Authorities are pleased that your legislation…

Mr. Chairman, we are still arguing about income-based rent. Therein lies the philosophical divide. Therein is the reason why people who manage public housing and do this on a daily basis day in and day out, and live with the problems, live…

we hear the same old stuff: Keep the status quo. Protect things the way they are. Continue to warehouse the poor. Continue to keep disincentives to work. Penalize the working poor. Raise rents on the poor. Keep things the way they are…

The issue for me is not the money on this. I am not asking for a study. I am simply saying, I look forward to working with you so that HUD has sufficient information to implement this plan.

what the bill, what our bill, has is 60 percent of median income, not medium income, not 80 percent of median income. It is 60 percent of median income.

Mr. Chairman, once again we are talking about insuring that people who are working who have, possibly, disabilities, people who are seniors, Americans who are seniors, also have the ability to get choice-based vouchers. The gentlewoman…

Mr. Chairman, again, the argument is between local control and community control and continuing to have a Washington-based, one-size-fits-all solution for every community in the Nation. The other side of the aisle continues to argue that…

I hope the gentleman will support the agreement and compromise that we are working out together. Also, again, one of the core principles that we are trying to advance here is that it is one of our responsibilities here in this body, this…