as we recently received a grant for $30.5 million, when we demonstrated that, residents of alice griffith, in one of the worst housing developments, we demonstrated to the brookings institute, we demonstrated to the urban institute, we demonstrated to hud that residents can help us build their own housing and stay there on-site when we rebuild it so that we would not do this old redevelopment move of pushing people off and then they would never be able to come back. they get to rebuild that housing themselves, and we spent part of that $95 million commitment training them to evolve with the skill sets needed to have not only the jobs on that project but when it becomes the mixed income project that we desire it to be, those jobs that they have will be sustainable for the rest of their lives. we ought to make sure that their lives do not go back. so we are looking at public/private partnerships that not only transformed a physical nature of the housing but also those very lives that i think are the real essence of your worked is the transformation of lives and the transformation of whole n

we are recipients of a hud grant, community choice program ground to rebuild our alice griffith one of the hardest areas of our city and toughest of our public housing developments. if you look at years ago, it was -- it was very high in the statistics in twain -- 2009 of all the shootings and gang recruitment. we are going to rebuild that housing with those neighbors on site and residents of alice griffin participating in the building of their housing. that is how you get strong communities. that is how even our chief says the other programs aren't worki working, your job will be 10 times harder. so building strong communities in my opinion will contribute a long way to prevention and we are fortune with leader pelosi and feinstein to get that grant in the right way. one reason they chose us is because of the integration we have working directly with the residents who have been victimized many years. they get to build their housing with us as a partnership. >> just one final comment. the a.g. is on her way up. one thing we're trying to do on the federal level is to have the various fe

griffith: i think if thomas jefferson had dropped back into this body he would think he was alice in wonderland because when he wrote the wonderful jefferson manual of parliamentary procedure he made it very clear that we had two bodies in this government, the senate and the house, and each was to act independently, one of the other, in order to come up with what was right for the american people. we are now told today that we are supposed to accept a compromise that the senators compromised on and then left town to go home to celebrate their holiday. ladies and gentlemen, i don't think that's appropriate. i think we should do what the system calls for when our founding fathers put it together, that is they do their business, we do our business and we do what we think is right. we are trying to do what we think is right here today. this resolution includes many parts, one of those parts that i think is extremely important is the boiler mact part. it had 41 democrat votes in this house, it has 13 democrat co-sponsors in the senate, it is a very bipartisan and popular measure and i hop