On the recordMay 7, 1997
First of all, as the gentleman from Massachusetts suggested, there are some issues that need to be cleared up. My two friends and colleagues on my side have entered a good deal of rhetorical information into this debate. Some of it was not specific to this particular amendment, though, I would suggest. In the first place, we talk about punishing low-income families, and I would suggest to the gentleman from Massachusetts that while there are 1 million low-income families who are in publicly assisted housing, there are three times that many who are equally low-income who are not in publicly assisted housing. And if we are talking about punishing people, those people are effectively being punished by being denied assisted housing, and that is the purpose of this amendment.
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