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Now we know what Brown-Waite was busy working on yesterday …
Posted Jul 13, 2007 by Billy House, Tribune Washington Bureau
Updated Jul 13, 2007 at 01:21 PM
A roof over your head is one of the most basic human needs, says GOP Rep. Ginny Brown-Waite of Brooksville.
Even so, that doesn’t mean the federal taxpayers should help provide you one if you are an illegal immigrant, she says.
Brown-Waite is upset that Democrats who control the U.S. House won’t allow a vote on keeping undocumented immigrants from receiving federal housing aid.
In a speech Thursday evening on the U.S. House floor, Brown-Waite said she and GOP colleagues had offered amendments to bring “accountability” to the Section 8 housing program funded by the Department of Housing and Urban Development. She said one of those amendments would have ensured that “those receiving funds, taxpayer funds under Section 8 are here in this country legally.”
“Yet the majority won’t even allow members to consider that amendment on the floor,” Brown-Waite said.
“What are they so afraid of?” she asked.
“A roof over your head is one of the most basic human needs. And we are not afraid to spend tax dollars to help those that cannot provide for themselves,” she said.
“But what Americans refuse to do is give up their hard-earned tax dollars to people who sneak into our country illegally.”
Brown-Waite, as you may recall, did not want to comment yesterday on the White House report on progress in Iraq or a push to withdraw troops.
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