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To: greenspirit who wrote (68297)	12/23/1999 2:44:00 AM
From: nihil	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

I talk about Congress because it is Congress that appropriates the money we are discussing. Surely you understand this, you can't be as ignorant as you appear.

To: greenspirit who wrote (68297)	12/23/1999 2:44:00 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Michael, of course Cuomo isn't an elected representative of congress. He's in the executive branch of government. The legislature passes the laws, the executive branch carries them out. Congress passes the budget, he administers the part of it that comes under HUD. Here is the part of the article you quoted that explains what's going on: He has enormous discretion in the administration of federal housing money, and he exercised some yesterday by taking effective control of a big chunk of the city's homelessness spending. Discretion means he gets to choose or decide how the money is spent. If it's not illegal, what's the beef? That he's a Democrat, and Guiliani is a Republican?