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Senate Budget Committee hearing to examine federal housing assistance programs

Sen. Mike Enzi  |  September 22, 2020

See opening statement by committee chair Sen. Mike Enzi (begins about 17:02), includes “… This is a topic where Senator Sanders and I probably have a lot of agreement. … I’m appalled at how little progress we’ve made. We appear to be an employment agency for thousands of federal workers. … Our goal isn’t to have more federal employees, it’s to get housing and homes for the millions. I visited one agency and found people proofreading copies of documents. I asked how they corrected the original if they found a mistake. They told me they didn’t have to worry about that because they seldom found a mistake. … Yes, we subsidize construction and we pay off properties that then belong to the developer. …”

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