Senate Proceeding on Sep 17th, 2009 :: 4:46:20 to 4:49:15
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Patty Murray: public housing for a total level of $4.75 billion to make sure that our nation's low-income families, which are also, as we all know, among the hardest hit in these tough economic times, continue to have access to safe ago, fordable housing. -- safe, affordable housing. the bill includes $75 million for a very important program that i worked with senator bond

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Speech By: Patty Murray

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Patty Murray: on, the joint affairs supportive housing program. this is extremely important to our nation's veterans. it will provide andditional 10,000 homeless veterans and their families with housing and supportive services. the bill also addresses the needs of some of our most vulnerable citizens by providing increased funding to support affordable housing for the elderly, disabled, those

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Patty Murray: suffering from aids and the nation's homeless. and finally, the bill provides almost $4 billion community development block grant program to support investments in public infrastructure, housing rehabilitation and public services, assistance that is critical to our states and our local governments right now. in summary, madam president, this bill provides assistance to

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Patty Murray: those who need it exphoas it most and it direct responsible and fiscally responsible way. it will help homeowners, it will help the most vulnerable and it will help the economy. so i hope all senators will support this bill when we move to the final vote here shortly this several amendments. and, madam president, before i

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Patty Murray: close, i do want to take, again, a moment to thank my partner and friend, senator bond, who it has been a pleasure to work with throughout this process. and as he and i go to conference now, to work hard to make sure we find the differences and fix the differences between us and the house so we can get this bill to the president madam president, i most importantly today want to thank

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Patty Murray: all of our staff, for the floor staff who has been so generous with their time and help as we've worked our way through, to all of the staff who worked on the transportation and housing subcommittee, including john kamark, ellen beers, joanne wasack, brian lehman, michael

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Patty Murray: bane, detric goodman, and alex keen arntion our new staff direct other transportation, who has done an excellent job, and especially matt mccarlgd and mccardle and matt spawn for awful their efforts during florida consideration. florida consideration. i am pleased we have a strong bill.

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Patty Murray: i would be remiss if i didn't single out and thank two members of our staff, megan mccarthy and rachel melberg, for all of the outstanding efforts that they have made over the past several months under very trying circumstances, late at night, working so and i want to really especially thank them for all of the work they have done to asejm tbhel bill and write the report.

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Patty Murray: i know it was a really daunting challenge and i am so grateful to them and all the extra effort they have had to go through under some very trying circumstances. they've done an excellent job and they're a delight to work with. with that, madam president, i see that my ranking member's on the floor. he was off the floor a moment ago. i just wanted to again thank him for being a great partner and