[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 11]
[House]
[Page 15653]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



   A TRIBUTE TO THE UPLAND PUBLIC HOUSING AUTHORITY AND AN APPEAL TO 
           REDUCE SECTION 8 PROGRAM BUREAUCRACY AND RED TAPE

  (Mr. GARY MILLER of California asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GARY MILLER of California. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to give 
praise to the city of Upland Public Housing Authority, its executive 
director, Sammie Szabo, and her staff for their hard work and 
accomplishments administering the Section 8 public housing program.
  At this time many authorities are having a very difficult time 
utilizing allocated funds that come to them under the Section 8 housing 
program, but Upland has maintained a lease rate of 98 to 102 percent, a 
very commendable effort on their part.
  How do we reward them? We make them work extra time and put in extra 
effort filling out meaningless paperwork for HUD to send to some 
bureaucrat in Washington, D.C., and they have to do this on their own 
time without compensation. This is ridiculous. We need to move forward 
with a great effort to eliminate much of this paperwork the bureaucracy 
here in Washington, D.C. requires of local officials, and allow them to 
do the good job they are trying to do.

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