shadid of arizona moved to recommit the bill h r fifty eight eighteen to the committee of financial services with instructions to report the same back to the house promptly in the form to which it may be perfected at the time of this motion with the following amendment paid six lines three before provide insert subject to any preferences as may be specified set forth in a subsection with respect to amount for housing rehabilitation and to the preferences required under the last two paragraphs of this subsection paid six line to strike for veterans paid sick strike for providing and in line eighteen and all that follow through located in line twenty and insert the following except that preferences as stablish pursuant to this the paragraph shall be subordinate to any preferences as may be specified set forth in a subsection with respect to amount for housing rehabilitation and use of amount from grants or loans under this providing housing for veterans and for teachers for workforce including law enforcement officers firefighters and other first responders who are employed by the city or locality in which the housing is located and fifteen provide that and tearing out other provisions of this subsection that provide preference and the use of amounts of grants or rating for providing housing for veterans and other classes of clients preference of these provided for providing housing for disabled veterans and then preference shall be given to providing housing for other veterans and such other classes and page twenty seven f the line sixty insert the following came limit limitation on residency no individual made purchase or lease any qualified for close housing that was acquired using any amount provided under a grant or a loan under this act or any two willing unit in any such qualified foreclosed housing if such individual has been convicted under federal or state law general proceeds mr speaker this legislation is flawed in many respects it provides seven point five billion dollars in loans to cities states and non profits to buy foreclosed homes from mortgage lenders who made bad loans that will not help people avoid foreclosure in addition it provides seven point five billion dollars in grants to rehabilitate those homes as such it is a giveaway to the were good generous tree that made bad loans recommit is a genuine attempt to improve this bill if the majority insists on going down this past the least we can do is to give those who have served our nation the highest priority in receiving loan assistance and housing assistance under this legislation and to make sure that those who have preyed upon our society as criminals are not helped by the legislation in its present form the bill allows homes acquired and rehabilitated with taxpayer money to be purchased by convicted drug dealers convicted sex offenders and people who have been convicted of mortgage fraud last night our colleague mr all meyer offered an amendment that prohibits homes made available for sale under this bill acquired and rehabilitated with taxpayer dollars from being sold to illegal immigrants that was a good amendment and i'm glad to see that the house just now overwhelmingly adopted it in same common sense to this bill that mr all my years in them it did it simply says that home is made available under the bill cannot be sold to drug dealers sex offenders or people convicted of mortgage fraud i ask my colleagues imagine how you would feel if your taxes were taken under this legislation and used by the grow government to purchase foreclosed homes then to rehabilitate a foreclosed home in your neighborhood and then if that  put on the market and sold by the government to a convicted drug dealer a convicted sex offender or a person guilty of fraud in the mortgage industry who contributed to the very housing turmoil we are now faced with you would be outraged and you should be we cannot let that happen under this legislation the second provision of the motion recommit corrects another defect in the bill yesterday and a man was offered to provide veterans and public safest safety officer such as firemen and police with a preference in purchasing homes made available under this bill the chairman of the committee quite appropriately accepted that amendment but we can do better than that this motion to takes that concept one step further it provides that disabled american veterans are to be accorded an even higher preference in acquiring homes under this legislation mr speaker every member in this body is aware tragically that american soldiers are returning with horrific wounds like many of you i have been to launch toll hospital in germany and visited our fighting men and women i have been here to walter reed army hospital and visited them it is wonderful that we can save their lives but this motion to recommit recognizes and rewards their sacrifice it provides that disabled veterans seeking to make to purchase a home made available under this legislation must gemma's recognize a five minute mr speaker i hope we're here seriously to legislate the effect of adopting this will be to make it much less likely that veterans get the preference now i understand the frustration of members on the other side the general michigan mr mcconnell offered remember yesterday notwithstanding any other preferences first priority to veterans members of the armed forces and active duty members of national guard armed forces reserve school teachers and emergency responders that's now in the bill that's part of the bill the gentleman phrased his motion as prompt me now we've already seen the kind of dominate tactics that the minority has been prone to you send this back to committee and you are very unlikely to get it back on the floor in a way in which we can pass it so last night we adopted preference for veterans today in the guise of yield because i have consistently when i was chairing the committee been open to amendments i've yielded but when at the last minute with zero notice something is drafted with no chance to discuss it and they use their full five minutes of course that will give up the small amount of time we have it's already inadequate to discuss it so this will prevent the relevance of getting the preferences they already have because you've seen what can happen with these delays we have preference for veterans in this bill now let me say procedurally if this had said forthwith i would have been less concerned about it but there's also this during the markup of this bill we accepted nine republican amendments yesterday accepted several republican amendments if i were seriously interested in helping the people who want to be the beneficiary i would have offered a member of the rules committee we would have accepted it i would not have waited to say has been put forward in an orderly way so we can vet it not abundant tended consequences as we did with the last recommit on the bill from our committee we could have accepted it as we go forward let me say further in conference with the senate i think we ought to make explicit that people with mortgage were don't get it at certain kinds of sex offenders yes i think we can do these things and we will do them going forward but to take it now with a promptly designed to kill the bill and it will in fact and do take back the veterans preferences we gave yesterday and they use disabled veterans and do huge concern for the war as a cover to kill a bill for which the votes do not exist to kill it is the we have to go back to committee we have rules to deal with you have got a crowded agenda that will be ahead of us in the committee you will not see this bill again probably for weeks and we will again have these tactics the gentleman you're just going to raise a point that he could come back the next day he cannot the rules of the house to run an hour and anyone who thinks that you're going to get unanimous consent from this group to wait four and five rolls is not paying attention when we have  to an appeal of a booming a frivolous appeal and we get an appeal of the appeal because people like the wording on the board you tell me if you think we're going to get serious about just write a reference so yeah i want veterans preferences in the bill going forward we can address this remember you're worried about some kind of red long before your reaction to the sensible parts of this will be embodied in the bill you will have a chance to vote to protect against mortgage fraud etc but vote to save this president from having to make the decision i urge my colleagues not to fall for that partisan poit vote down this effort to dumb way and perhaps the way in definitely this bill we cause substantial numbers of days that we lapse does this motion if it passes in any way empower us to forget those rules of the house which require a certain number of days in committee certain number of layovers announce