I just want to say to you----

If he does not have the people that he needs to get the job done, I do not care what we do in terms of some of these other things that we are talking about today, he will not be able to perform properly.

Mr. Allbaugh, when you came to my office and we talked prior to your confirmation hearing, we talked about the human capital crisis that is confronting the United States of America.

It is a very heavy burden on the State, and I think it is actually very important for the revitalization of Southern Manhattan.

I want to commend you and all of the people at FEMA for the tremendous response that we have seen given to the September 11 attacks.

There continue to be open questions about whether that meets the criterion.

It is a very heavy burden on the State, and I think it is actually very important for the revitalization of Southern Manhattan.

I want to commend you and all of the people at FEMA for the tremendous response that we have seen given to the September 11 attacks.

We would very much love to hear a response about where it stands in the process.

We would very much love to hear a response about where it stands in the process.

There continue to be open questions about whether that meets the criterion.

I also find it uneasy that with Congress in the business of reauthorizing TANF this year, that there is no comment with regard to housing issues.

The President's housing budget is completely silent on the specific housing needs that face welfare recipients.

Maybe we should follow up with your staff and see how this works.

zeroing out the grants is an extraordinarily troubling issue for those local communities.

As you can well imagine as a former business person, though, that if you had bonded, if you had gone to the banks under the projections that you were going to receive grants and it had been indicated that those were going to occur, then…

Overall however, this budget falls short of meeting what I believe is HUD's core mission--fulfilling both the short- and long-term housing needs that America's families, our communities and frankly, our economy, rely on.

Furthermore, the Administration espouses the need to physically improve public housing; its budget actually cuts $441 million from the Public Housing Capital Fund, the program which funds public housing repairs and rehabilitation.