Rep. Gosar Leads Effort to Block Biggest Overreach Yet: Utopian Obama Housing Regulation

Statement

Today, U.S. Congressman Paul A. Gosar, D.D.S. (AZ-04) released the following statement after 14 of his House colleagues joined him in calling for House and Senate Committee Chairman to include a Gosar amendment, blocking President Obama's Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) rule, in the final Transportation, Housing and Urban Development (THUD), and Related Agencies Appropriations Act of 2016 bill or omnibus appropriations package:

"The American people voted in Republican majorities to both the House and Senate in 2014 so that we would put the brakes on an out-of-control administration. In order to do that, Republicans must act boldly and follow through on our promises of blocking nonsensical new regulations enacted under this president by executive fiat.

"The Obama Administration's new housing rule is no different. This terrible new regulation is an attempt to extort communities into giving up control of local zoning decisions and will reengineer the makeup of our neighborhoods. Important grants for local communities will be stripped away if communities do not conform and implement illogical standards concocted by D.C. bureaucrats. Just as the president has used the DOJ, IRS and DHS as a political weapon, he has now expanded his arsenal to include HUD, as he seeks to fundamentally transform America.

"Twice, the full House of Representatives has passed my amendment to protect American communities from this overreach. It's time that appropriators heed our call and block Obama's utopian housing regulation."

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