Political Quotes

“Mr. Chairman, first, let me thank the gentlewoman from Ohio for offering this amendment and really allowing us the time to debate this issue and to talk about those that we never have a chance to talk about, those individuals in our districts who are really just hanging from a cliff in terms of the basic substance and in terms of their income and in terms of the housing conditions in which they live. This is just another example, this elimination of the public housing, drug elimination program, is just another example of really how shortsighted both in terms of policy and in terms of funding that this bill really is. Mr. Chairman, now one-third of all residents who live in public housing, I want to remind our colleagues that a third of our residents are elderly. They are elderly. Local police officers do not patrol public housing. So if one does not support this amendment, one is really also in fact allowing thousands of elderly people to live in unsafe environments.”