[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 5]
[House]
[Page 7301]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                 PUBLIC PAYS FOR BAD GOVERNMENT POLICY

  (Ms. McKINNEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Ms. McKINNEY. Madam Speaker, the Atlanta Task Force for the Homeless 
in my home State of Georgia provides funds for housing and other 
services for the homeless in the Atlanta metropolitan area. But an 
amendment offered by the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Barr) to H.R. 1073 
would delay funding to the Task Force and set a bad precedent in the 
distribution of funds for homeless services in the metropolitan area.
  This amendment creates an administrative carve-out that supersedes 
current policy. In other words, this amendment is aimed at 
micromanaging HUD. And why would anyone want to do this? Because the 
Cobb Family Resources, an affordable apartment community in Cobb 
County, is run by the wife of the representative who introduced the 
amendment and who was able to get it passed out of the subcommittee.
  Madam Speaker, it appears that the amendment is trying to give 
preferential treatment at the expense of the needy in our communities. 
That is what I call bad policy and bald-faced personal service at the 
public's expense.

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  But then, what would anyone expect from anyone who supports the 
Council of Conservative Citizens, a modern day Ku Klux Klan?

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