Vicente Gonzalez: “I rise very strongly to support the Kennedy amendment. I find this home rule flexible block grant program just simply…”

“I rise very strongly to support the Kennedy amendment. I find this home rule flexible block grant program just simply outrageous and it must be struck from the bill. I can recall the horrendous times when there were no such things as housing assistance programs. I recall vividly families in the most distressed areas of our area in and around my hometown that I would visit as I had worked as a chief two-and-out probation officer for a while and would find these hovels with dirt floors and no privy or anything. Those were horrendous times. The way we are going, we are going right back to them.”