I cannot believe Ranking Member Waters has so many amendments to this bill. That is not right. A Ranking Member should not go through this. Her amendments only go to prove there was little cooperation when the bill was written.
Amendment 2 was to allow children to live with their parents in public housing WITHOUT a rate increase. You've got to be joking!
The average apartment is $2500 per month for housing in New York City. Rep. Nydia Velazquez seeks help with these costs by ending the hardship this bill presents by altering the deduction of child care from their rental applications. Being unable to include child care costs on the application is a rental increase. She calls for bipartisanship humane standards to improve the outcomes of families in the USA.
The amendment is passed. It should have not been in the bill in the first place!
Amendment 3 - Ms Sewell of Alabama - Requires the HUD Secretary to assess the living expenses of applicants including health costs, etc. for 10 million individuals across the country of the elderly, handicapped and poor with children. She believes it will make the lives of those helped with their rent better and not defeat the purpose of the housing assistance. - Approved with no objection.
Amendment 5 - Mr.Hinojosa of Texas - Well he is making all kinds of thankful acalades, but, I don't know what the amendment is about. A User Fee for single family loan program for house purchases. The fee would not be more than $50.00 per application. 2 million families. That is a lot of fee. That is for 502 program. $100,000,000.00. The monies are suppose to be used to upgrade the underwriting system. Well, if the original health care website is an example of the technology used to SPEED loans along, I am sure it is lacking. - Passes without sincere objection.
Message from President Obama in writing by Page delivery to House Speaker.
Amendment - Rep. Steve Palazzo of Mississippi - Managerial oversight while meeting residents needs - PHA in three states and one county that oppose a board member of any group receiving benefits. One resident is suppose to be a part of the board. The amendment makes the requirement permanent rather than annual renewal. Ranking Member Waters objects. She feels it is important to have a resident on the PHA Board. There are PHAs that receive exemptions and fall into non-compliance with resident contact is a matter of annual issuance of exemptions. She does not believe any exemption should be permanent. She offers an example of public housing units that were being sold without any notice to residents or otherwise. It occurred because the particular PHA was given an exemption. Rep. Palazzo believes he is correct because of conflict of interest. Basically, he thinks people in public housing cannot be objective to serve on a Board. Actions on this amendment is postponed.
Amendment 8 - Rep. Peter Welch of Vermont - He wants to extend the benefits of HR 3700 to folks in mobile homes facing economic challenges. The amendment would allow through Section 8 inclusion of the rental of the mobile home and not JUST the land underneath the mobile home. Ya, think. Rep. Jeb Hensarling believes it is an equalize and a step forward for pre-manufactured housing. Passes without objection.
Amendment 9 - Rep. Scott Peters of California - 130 thousand veterans and about 56 percent have disabilities and are without housing. Homelessness of veterans is a shame of this country, quite frankly. The amendment will create new employment for a person to serve as a liaison between the VA and HUD to prevent homelessness. Rep. Hensarling claims his time but has no opposition and strongly stands in recognition of the need for the amendment. Passes without objection.
Amendment 10 - Rep. Scott Peters of California - Homelessness 'continuum of care.' Homeless count on the street. San Diego had far higher numbers of homelessness but received far less funding than needed. HUD is to open the public comment period to supply input from the people who know the homelessness of their cities and towns. IT BETTER HAVE A PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD. The people that work with these population are magnificent and dedicated and are COMPETENT to supply comment about the funding. Passes without objection.
Amendment 11 - Rep. Keith Ellison of Minnesota - 50 million Americans lack a credit score or have too few trade lines to a credit score. FICO has been building more paths to a credit score in the State of Minnesota. This is to help the people in HUD housing that pay 30 percent of their income for rent, yet the on time rental payment is never entered into the credit score. They are noted for late payment, but, never for the on time payment. Empirical evidence exists that rent reporting helps credit scores. The "credit invisible" residents were able to build a score of up to 684. These people were able to relieve the monies they owe by seeking lower percent interest rates with these new scores. Rep. Ellison is also on the House Finance Committee. Rep. Hensarling speaks in opposition because he is holding a hearing to accept testimony regarding this issue. He does not believe this bill is the best place for this concern. Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer of Missouri seems to think on time payments are not made by anyone else in the entire country. Rep. Luetkemeyer doesn't like the idea of people on housing assistance receiving good credit scores. He just doesn't like it. The amendment is not passed.
Amendment 12 - Rep. Al Green from Texas - The amendment is well known and quite simple - HUD may include credit reporting. MAY is the primary word. HUD May include a pilot program with credit reporting. This is additional information and not a substitution. Rep. Hensarling is opposed to this, too. President Obama thinks the "MAY" has been available before and was not acted on. FHA. Rep. Hensarling is FEARFUL such an idea is what caused the 2008 global financial collapse. Sorry, but, this is prejudice and needs to be challenged in a court of law based in grossly invalid reasons. Hensarling and Luetemeyer have not basis for their bias. THEY DON'T THINK IT IS FAIR. People outside of public housing would be upset if they were faced with poor credit rates and those folks in public housing have better credit scores. Even though such a RECOVERED or NEW credit score would allow movement out of public housing it is simply NOT FAIR. You know. Those public housing folks might buy a Cadillac or some darn thing like that. Better they should sell $1.00 cigarettes and end up unable to breath. - Roll call vote requested so the vote will be postponed. Good for you Rep. Green.
Amendment 13 - Rep. Jackson Lee from Texas - Reform and real housing issues. People who need housing and people that have poor housing and young people that do not have housing, etc. HUD Secretary along with Labor Secretary to submit a report annually to improve family empowerment which should include child care, transportation, meals and job training. She is right. Supportive services to those in public housing does create the OPPORTUNITIES to move out of public housing I am a witness to it. Something magic happens when a person is given an address. They can and should turn their lives around if they are ABLE. Rep. Hensarling believes this is a good idea. - Passed without opposition which includes Del. Bordallo.
Del. Madeleine Bordallo from Guam - Housing became short supplied because of migrants taking residence there. She wants to change existing law. Rep. Hensarling supports the changes in the wording of existing law to protect existing Americans in Guam. It has been the practice of Congress to include all territories of the USA in laws. The language used by Congress does not exclude or include any people living in the territories. That is why this came up.
Amendment 14 - Rep. David Price from North Carolina - To update the peoples with AIDS program. It would base the distribution of these funds depending on the number of AIDS cases existing today. Currently, there are far less AIDS persons living and simply doesn't need the funding. The Ryan White program has been adjusted according to the population of AIDS people still living. The amendment is to parallel the Ryan White program for funding based in the living. A stop loss provision is also included. The Accountability Office has seen need to update the formula. 115 jurisdictions would benefit with new funding formula. Carrying out this housing funding would eliminate any additional funds into the program. Rep. Jerrold Nadler opposes the amendment. He states the amendment would not do anything to improve the funding, it would shift funding around and cause problems. A quarter of the population in New York would lose housing if the amendment passes.
Amendment 2 was to allow children to live with their parents in public housing WITHOUT a rate increase. You've got to be joking!
The average apartment is $2500 per month for housing in New York City. Rep. Nydia Velazquez seeks help with these costs by ending the hardship this bill presents by altering the deduction of child care from their rental applications. Being unable to include child care costs on the application is a rental increase. She calls for bipartisanship humane standards to improve the outcomes of families in the USA.
The amendment is passed. It should have not been in the bill in the first place!
Amendment 3 - Ms Sewell of Alabama - Requires the HUD Secretary to assess the living expenses of applicants including health costs, etc. for 10 million individuals across the country of the elderly, handicapped and poor with children. She believes it will make the lives of those helped with their rent better and not defeat the purpose of the housing assistance. - Approved with no objection.
Amendment 5 - Mr.Hinojosa of Texas - Well he is making all kinds of thankful acalades, but, I don't know what the amendment is about. A User Fee for single family loan program for house purchases. The fee would not be more than $50.00 per application. 2 million families. That is a lot of fee. That is for 502 program. $100,000,000.00. The monies are suppose to be used to upgrade the underwriting system. Well, if the original health care website is an example of the technology used to SPEED loans along, I am sure it is lacking. - Passes without sincere objection.
What does this program do?
Also known as the Section 502 Direct Loan Program, this program assists low- and very-low-income applicants obtain decent, safe and sanitary housing in eligible rural areas by providing payment assistance to increase an applicant’s repayment ability. Payment assistance is a type of subsidy that reduces the mortgage payment for a short time. The amount of assistance is determined by the adjusted family income....
Amendment 6 - US Rep. Grace Meng - Minimum heating guidelines for public housing units to low income residents. She provides an example of the cruel nature of the landlords currently involved with public housing. Why can't the USA government mandate heating of public housing? One in five public housing residents are elderly and many more are children with a real peril of death and carbon monoxide poisoning when gas stoves and space heaters are used to supplement the heat to an apartment. - Passes with no objection.Also known as the Section 502 Direct Loan Program, this program assists low- and very-low-income applicants obtain decent, safe and sanitary housing in eligible rural areas by providing payment assistance to increase an applicant’s repayment ability. Payment assistance is a type of subsidy that reduces the mortgage payment for a short time. The amount of assistance is determined by the adjusted family income....
Message from President Obama in writing by Page delivery to House Speaker.
Amendment - Rep. Steve Palazzo of Mississippi - Managerial oversight while meeting residents needs - PHA in three states and one county that oppose a board member of any group receiving benefits. One resident is suppose to be a part of the board. The amendment makes the requirement permanent rather than annual renewal. Ranking Member Waters objects. She feels it is important to have a resident on the PHA Board. There are PHAs that receive exemptions and fall into non-compliance with resident contact is a matter of annual issuance of exemptions. She does not believe any exemption should be permanent. She offers an example of public housing units that were being sold without any notice to residents or otherwise. It occurred because the particular PHA was given an exemption. Rep. Palazzo believes he is correct because of conflict of interest. Basically, he thinks people in public housing cannot be objective to serve on a Board. Actions on this amendment is postponed.
Amendment 8 - Rep. Peter Welch of Vermont - He wants to extend the benefits of HR 3700 to folks in mobile homes facing economic challenges. The amendment would allow through Section 8 inclusion of the rental of the mobile home and not JUST the land underneath the mobile home. Ya, think. Rep. Jeb Hensarling believes it is an equalize and a step forward for pre-manufactured housing. Passes without objection.
Amendment 9 - Rep. Scott Peters of California - 130 thousand veterans and about 56 percent have disabilities and are without housing. Homelessness of veterans is a shame of this country, quite frankly. The amendment will create new employment for a person to serve as a liaison between the VA and HUD to prevent homelessness. Rep. Hensarling claims his time but has no opposition and strongly stands in recognition of the need for the amendment. Passes without objection.
Amendment 10 - Rep. Scott Peters of California - Homelessness 'continuum of care.' Homeless count on the street. San Diego had far higher numbers of homelessness but received far less funding than needed. HUD is to open the public comment period to supply input from the people who know the homelessness of their cities and towns. IT BETTER HAVE A PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD. The people that work with these population are magnificent and dedicated and are COMPETENT to supply comment about the funding. Passes without objection.
Amendment 11 - Rep. Keith Ellison of Minnesota - 50 million Americans lack a credit score or have too few trade lines to a credit score. FICO has been building more paths to a credit score in the State of Minnesota. This is to help the people in HUD housing that pay 30 percent of their income for rent, yet the on time rental payment is never entered into the credit score. They are noted for late payment, but, never for the on time payment. Empirical evidence exists that rent reporting helps credit scores. The "credit invisible" residents were able to build a score of up to 684. These people were able to relieve the monies they owe by seeking lower percent interest rates with these new scores. Rep. Ellison is also on the House Finance Committee. Rep. Hensarling speaks in opposition because he is holding a hearing to accept testimony regarding this issue. He does not believe this bill is the best place for this concern. Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer of Missouri seems to think on time payments are not made by anyone else in the entire country. Rep. Luetkemeyer doesn't like the idea of people on housing assistance receiving good credit scores. He just doesn't like it. The amendment is not passed.
Amendment 12 - Rep. Al Green from Texas - The amendment is well known and quite simple - HUD may include credit reporting. MAY is the primary word. HUD May include a pilot program with credit reporting. This is additional information and not a substitution. Rep. Hensarling is opposed to this, too. President Obama thinks the "MAY" has been available before and was not acted on. FHA. Rep. Hensarling is FEARFUL such an idea is what caused the 2008 global financial collapse. Sorry, but, this is prejudice and needs to be challenged in a court of law based in grossly invalid reasons. Hensarling and Luetemeyer have not basis for their bias. THEY DON'T THINK IT IS FAIR. People outside of public housing would be upset if they were faced with poor credit rates and those folks in public housing have better credit scores. Even though such a RECOVERED or NEW credit score would allow movement out of public housing it is simply NOT FAIR. You know. Those public housing folks might buy a Cadillac or some darn thing like that. Better they should sell $1.00 cigarettes and end up unable to breath. - Roll call vote requested so the vote will be postponed. Good for you Rep. Green.
Amendment 13 - Rep. Jackson Lee from Texas - Reform and real housing issues. People who need housing and people that have poor housing and young people that do not have housing, etc. HUD Secretary along with Labor Secretary to submit a report annually to improve family empowerment which should include child care, transportation, meals and job training. She is right. Supportive services to those in public housing does create the OPPORTUNITIES to move out of public housing I am a witness to it. Something magic happens when a person is given an address. They can and should turn their lives around if they are ABLE. Rep. Hensarling believes this is a good idea. - Passed without opposition which includes Del. Bordallo.
Del. Madeleine Bordallo from Guam - Housing became short supplied because of migrants taking residence there. She wants to change existing law. Rep. Hensarling supports the changes in the wording of existing law to protect existing Americans in Guam. It has been the practice of Congress to include all territories of the USA in laws. The language used by Congress does not exclude or include any people living in the territories. That is why this came up.
Amendment 14 - Rep. David Price from North Carolina - To update the peoples with AIDS program. It would base the distribution of these funds depending on the number of AIDS cases existing today. Currently, there are far less AIDS persons living and simply doesn't need the funding. The Ryan White program has been adjusted according to the population of AIDS people still living. The amendment is to parallel the Ryan White program for funding based in the living. A stop loss provision is also included. The Accountability Office has seen need to update the formula. 115 jurisdictions would benefit with new funding formula. Carrying out this housing funding would eliminate any additional funds into the program. Rep. Jerrold Nadler opposes the amendment. He states the amendment would not do anything to improve the funding, it would shift funding around and cause problems. A quarter of the population in New York would lose housing if the amendment passes.
Housing Opportunities for Persons With AIDS (click here)
They need housing. I think the US House is arguing over the LIMITATION of funding. The HOPA program needs to be reassessed. These folks cannot become homeless. CANNOT. - The amendment passed unfortunately. I think the HIV population in the USA when housing is needed should be provided with it. It protects their longevity and putting them out on the street will cause them more stress, exposure to disease they would not be exposed to with housing. This is simply wrong. HUD should be provided a program to reassess the needs for funding which can be supplied by housing authorities and/or volunteers that work with the homeless.
Housing doesn't get cheaper. We have already heard how the average rent in NYC is $2500 per month. The reason the funds are still allocated in the same manner without interruption is most likely because of increased costs.
Housing doesn't get cheaper. We have already heard how the average rent in NYC is $2500 per month. The reason the funds are still allocated in the same manner without interruption is most likely because of increased costs.
Amendment 7 Palazzo of Mississippi has a five minute recorded vote.
A vote on the Veto override that would have repealed the health care law. Budget bill.
Rep. Tom Price extends 30 days to receive all remarks regarding this revote. Ah, the Congress is fighting to support the will of the people. Obviously, the Republicans haven't checked with their Wall Street funders. Price is a liar. I have the doctor I always had. Oh, they have a solemn responsibility. Businesses are downsizing. People are being put into part time employment. The President is the only person standing in the way of what the American REPUBLICAN people want.
Mr. Price wants to reinstitute those policies that never pay a dime on claims. Come to think of it, there is also major healthcare companies that like to say no before accepting their responsibility. There should be a law.
Rep. Chris Van Hollen from Maryland notes the only thing historic about this vote is that this is the 63rd time for such a vote. The GAO has stated to eliminate the ACA would cause loss of insurance to Americans. This vote is suppose to end the ACA and funding to Planned Parenthood. Did they not hear about the new indictments? Hello?
Here we go, the US House floor was empty and now it looks like bees to a hive. They make honey. They don't flock to it. Bears look for honey.
The Amendment was adopted.
Amendment 12 which is reintroduced for a recorded vote of Rep. Green and it is defeated.
Two thirds vote is needed to override ACA and Planned Parenthood.
Do Republicans ever have a moment of sanity when they realize the country's well being hangs in the balance? They never stop to think, they only ride the politics. That is a shame. It is also very unethical.
HR 3700 final passage vote is passed with a vote of 427 with 7 not voting.
HR 3762 is called "Restoring Americas Healthcare Freedom Reconciliation Act" - Restoring? If this bill ever passed it wouldn't restore anything it would collapse the entire healthcare system.
Vetoed (No Override Attempt) on Jan 8, 2016
Republicans simply don't care about Americans. HR 3762 is rejected.
HR 3662 was passed with opposition.
The truth is this bill is completely unnecessary. The USA has other sanctions with Iran. This is pure politics intended to paint the Democrats as weak on terrorism.
January 26, 2016
Rep. James Langevin speaks about the Perkins college loan program. It needs reauthorization for skills that matters and work that pays.
Rep. Peter Olson talks about a business that made contact with the SBCC and he now employes 30 employees.
There is concern about the approach of police and Homeland Security regarding human traffiking taking place with the Super Bowl. The new approach is to treat those traffiked as victims.
Boko Harem in the past 48 hours have burned children by pouring gasoline on them.
Oh, Gomet could you ever stay away. He is complaining that the Obama adminstration hasn't prosecuted any Palestinian terrorists that have acted against Americans in Israel.
This is an example.
A Palestinian man (click here) fatally stabbed two Israeli men during prayers in Tel Aviv on Thursday, while three people — including an 18-year-old American volunteer — were killed later Thursday in a separate attack in the West Bank....
These people are prosecuted in Israel if they are alive to be apprehended. This is nonsense by Gomert and an example of how far Republicans will go to say there is incompetency in the Obama Administration. The Republicans have set up an entire office to carry out such prosecutions. There is no way this is going to happen. They all have to be extradicted. Leave it to Gomert to carry on about nothing.
Here is the reason the political office was open, "...Benghazi..." It is all political and has no place anywhere. It is up to the US Justice Department to carry out such issues.
I want to know what other ghost offices the Republicans have created for political purposes. The law is the law, no political office is going to change that.
Go home, Gomert, your politics is showing.
Gomert, you are a bigot, shut up.
Gomert, you are a US House of Representative, you can run your own war. Why not do that and do something to earn your pay. I am sure the members of your district will cheer for your invasion.
Oh, here is another Republican political movement, "Nebraska Values." Every Republican is going to have their own "Homeland Values." Just what we need more rhetoric.
Rep. Tom Price extends 30 days to receive all remarks regarding this revote. Ah, the Congress is fighting to support the will of the people. Obviously, the Republicans haven't checked with their Wall Street funders. Price is a liar. I have the doctor I always had. Oh, they have a solemn responsibility. Businesses are downsizing. People are being put into part time employment. The President is the only person standing in the way of what the American REPUBLICAN people want.
Mr. Price wants to reinstitute those policies that never pay a dime on claims. Come to think of it, there is also major healthcare companies that like to say no before accepting their responsibility. There should be a law.
Rep. Chris Van Hollen from Maryland notes the only thing historic about this vote is that this is the 63rd time for such a vote. The GAO has stated to eliminate the ACA would cause loss of insurance to Americans. This vote is suppose to end the ACA and funding to Planned Parenthood. Did they not hear about the new indictments? Hello?
Here we go, the US House floor was empty and now it looks like bees to a hive. They make honey. They don't flock to it. Bears look for honey.
The Amendment was adopted.
Amendment 12 which is reintroduced for a recorded vote of Rep. Green and it is defeated.
Two thirds vote is needed to override ACA and Planned Parenthood.
Do Republicans ever have a moment of sanity when they realize the country's well being hangs in the balance? They never stop to think, they only ride the politics. That is a shame. It is also very unethical.
HR 3700 final passage vote is passed with a vote of 427 with 7 not voting.
HR 3762 is called "Restoring Americas Healthcare Freedom Reconciliation Act" - Restoring? If this bill ever passed it wouldn't restore anything it would collapse the entire healthcare system.
Vetoed (No Override Attempt) on Jan 8, 2016
This bill was vetoed by the President on January 8, 2016. The bill is dead unless Congress can override it.
Republicans simply don't care about Americans. HR 3762 is rejected.
HR 3662 was passed with opposition.
The truth is this bill is completely unnecessary. The USA has other sanctions with Iran. This is pure politics intended to paint the Democrats as weak on terrorism.
January 26, 2016
By Jim Zarroli
...But doing business (click here) in Iran presents special challenges, and the reasons have to do with U.S. policy.
While the U.S. government has agreed to lift the nuclear sanctions against Iran, it continues to impose other sanctions over Iran's human rights policies and support for terrorism. These sanctions bar American citizens and companies from most forms of investment or trade with the country.
In theory, those sanctions should affect only U.S. companies — but in reality, the law's reach goes well beyond U.S. borders, Habibi says.
The U.S. financial sanctions "can still cause some problems and make some of the European businesses and banks subject to U.S. economic punishment," he says....
Rep. James Langevin speaks about the Perkins college loan program. It needs reauthorization for skills that matters and work that pays.
Rep. Peter Olson talks about a business that made contact with the SBCC and he now employes 30 employees.
Rep. Ted Pope talks about WWI and the large number of deaths. War story of a Medal of Honor winner. Hundredth year anniversary. I am not sure what anniversary he is referring to. These are the years of WW I - July 28, 1914 and lasted until November 11, 1918. Sorry, he was referring to the 100th anniversary of the actions of the Metal of Honor winner.
There is concern about the approach of police and Homeland Security regarding human traffiking taking place with the Super Bowl. The new approach is to treat those traffiked as victims.
Boko Harem in the past 48 hours have burned children by pouring gasoline on them.
Oh, Gomet could you ever stay away. He is complaining that the Obama adminstration hasn't prosecuted any Palestinian terrorists that have acted against Americans in Israel.
This is an example.
A Palestinian man (click here) fatally stabbed two Israeli men during prayers in Tel Aviv on Thursday, while three people — including an 18-year-old American volunteer — were killed later Thursday in a separate attack in the West Bank....
These people are prosecuted in Israel if they are alive to be apprehended. This is nonsense by Gomert and an example of how far Republicans will go to say there is incompetency in the Obama Administration. The Republicans have set up an entire office to carry out such prosecutions. There is no way this is going to happen. They all have to be extradicted. Leave it to Gomert to carry on about nothing.
Here is the reason the political office was open, "...Benghazi..." It is all political and has no place anywhere. It is up to the US Justice Department to carry out such issues.
I want to know what other ghost offices the Republicans have created for political purposes. The law is the law, no political office is going to change that.
Go home, Gomert, your politics is showing.
Gomert, you are a US House of Representative, you can run your own war. Why not do that and do something to earn your pay. I am sure the members of your district will cheer for your invasion.
Oh, here is another Republican political movement, "Nebraska Values." Every Republican is going to have their own "Homeland Values." Just what we need more rhetoric.
