Reply #2: H.R. 3838 [View All]

[MrBenchley]

was held up in the Senate after passing the House 345-36.

I find your characterization of it grotesque; it was primarily a bill to aid the poor and homeless.

I suggest you take a look at Thomas Register.

"Although the House overwhelmingly and on a bipartisan basis passed H.R. 3838, the Housing and Community Development Act of 1994, the Senate failed to enact similar legislation in the rush to adjournment before the November elections.
The House-passed H.R. 3838 proposed critically needed reforms to many of the core housing and community development programs, so that HUD, FmHA  and program beneficiaries can implement them with greater ease and flexibility. It also provided for a number of initiatives of both committee members and the Administration that reflect a new spirit of activism and creativity, which reinvigorates the federal role in housing and community development programs.
These programs and initiatives would provide housing and other assistance to this nation's most vulnerable citizens and communities: low- and moderate- income families and the homeless. The Committee was guided by the deficit reduction targets set by the Congress in the fall of 1993. Committee members sought a bipartisan consensus on total program funding to be authorized in each of the two fiscal years.
Of particular significance were rent reform and reforms to the one-for-one replacement policy affecting public housing residents. Under rent reform, residents of public housing would be encouraged to work by being permitted to retain more of their earned income, rather than lose it to rent. The one-for-one replacement reforms, like those under property disposition reform, would increase a public housing authority's flexibility in replacing dilapidated public housing and would establish conditions for replacement that were more congruous with the housing market.
Further, the bill would consolidate homeless programs under the McKinney Act into one unified housing and services program."

http://www.nhi.org/online/issues/78/gonzalez.html