Senate Proceeding on Sep 16th, 2009 :: 6:45:00 to 6:48:30
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6:44:40 to 6:45:01( Edit History Discussion )

David Vitter: quum call: mr. vitter: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from louisiana. mr. vitter: mr. president, i that any quorum call be vitiated if there's one ongoing. the presiding officer: no objection. mr. vitter: i ask t

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Speech By: David Vitter

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David Vitter: 2359 be called up. the presiding officer: is there objection? without objection, so ordered. mr. vitter: i ask that the modified version of the amendment be made the presiding officer: the clerk will report. louisiana, mr. vitter proposes amendment 2359 as modified. mr. vitter: thank you, mr. president. mr. president, this amendments very straightforward andt's

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David Vitter: very narrowly drawn. first of public housing assistance in new orleans, louisiana. nowhere else. and i bill from going to any housing assistance to benefit drug dealers or members of violent gangs.

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David Vitter: folks who have actually been convicted of these offenses, drug dealing -- not simple possession -- drug dealing, conviction of that, or conviction of crimes that involve being a member of a violent gang. mr. president, after hurricane

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David Vitter: katrina, there was an enormous rebuilding effort in new orleans that con and part of that effort involves public housing in new orleans. and, quite frankly, mr. president, that system had been plagued for many years with tremendous problems. the biggest of which was crime in those projects. and the

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David Vitter: effort to rid those projects of violent crime. that effort continues, and it -- that battle certainly hasn't been won yet. because, unfortunately, new orleans continues to be a capital in the country for violent crime with very, very high violent crime levels. mr. president, as w rebuild

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David Vitter: those projects, using a fundamentally different model, a mixed income model, less dentisty. certainly one of the changes we need to make is to drug dealers and members of violent gangs do not set up shop, once again, in those public housing projects and do

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David Vitter: not get other taxpayer assistance. in this bill, mr. president, is $7.25 billion for public housing assistance. some of that will go to new certainly it's reasonable and productive and positiv that we simply say we're not going to send this assistance to folks

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David Vitter: who have been convicted of being violent gang members, have been convicted of drug deali. not simple possession, drug dealing. this is important policy. it's a very important -- important for the continued recovery of new orleans coming out of hurricane katrina. and i urge my colleague to

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David Vitter: accept this amendment and support this amendment and pass it into law. with that, mr. president, i

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David Vitter: reserve the balance of my time.