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House Passes. Uosar Amendment Protecting Local Zoning Rights from Federal Overreach.. Page 2 of1 <br />federal neighborhood engineering at the behest of an overreaching <br />federal government. <br />"Furthermore, HUD officials shouldn't be holding hostage grant monies <br />aimed at community improvement based on its unrealistic utopian ideas <br />of what every community should resemble. Local zoning decisions have <br />traditionally been, and should always be, made by local communities, not <br />bureaucrats in Washington DC, 1 am extremely pleased to see the <br />House put a stop to this attempt by the Obama Administration to control <br />a fundamental aspect of the American dream " <br />Additional: <br />Congressman Gosar's amencment is endorsed by Americans for Limited <br />Government, Freedom Works, Council for Citizens Against Government <br />Waste, Taxpayers for Common Sense and Eagle Forum. <br />Americans for Limited Government suppprted the Gosar amendment <br />stating, "Housing discrimination basec on race has been illegal since the <br />1960s, and people should be allowed to choose for themselves where <br />they live without D.C. bureaucrats nationalizing zoning c <br />political reasons." <br />ecisions for <br />An amendment to this same a opropriations bill blocking funds from going <br />to this misguided rule successfully passed in the 113th Congress More <br />information on that amendment can be found HERE. Congressman <br />Gosar appeared on Fax Business Network to discuss the issue Click <br />HERE to watch the clip. <br />In addition, Congressman Gosar's bill, the Local Zoning and Property <br />Rights Protection Act. "MR 1995. rejects this overreaching rule is <br />currently cosponsored by 20 members in the House. <br />inti) 82osar house oc)vinres-relels'e.iiiniNc.-1-r,i,:q;..,:-;1(1,,;:11^-;Inienrintimi-nrnri-4-Tino-Inof:11-7nni <br />/r2. -/z <br />1 ')/l 0r)() 1 A <br />