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WASHINGTON — A proposed amendment aimed at defunding a controversial Housing and Urban Development (HUD) regulation related to Section 8 Housing was tabled in the upper chamber Thursday.Utah Sen. Mike Lee 100%proposed an amendment to the Senate Transportation and HUD appropriations bill that would have defunded a regulation stopping the implementation of the HUD regulation known as Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH).The HUD rule, put forth by Housing Secretary Julian Castro last year, mandates that $3 billion of annual community development block grants on1,200 recipient cities and counties to rezone neighborhoods along income and racial specifications.Lee said in his floor speech on his amendment Wednesday that AFFH mandated that cities and towns nationwide are required to audit their local housing policies, under monitoring by HUD regulators, “who may have never have lived anywhere near there.”
http://dailycaller.com/2016/05/19/senate-gop-and-democrats-save-hud-regulation-from-defunding-measure/Paging @sinkspur and the others here who just tried to tell me the GOPe has blocked obama from getting what he wants.
Don't hold your breath.
