I think what we have to do in a bipartisan effort and in collaboration and in consultation with experts like yourselves is figure out a path forward.

Spending money well is really important whether it is on the building side, on the mold side, or on the paint side.

A holistic approach over time. This is what the plan looks like. It might take 10 years. It might take 15 years.

Let us invest Federal dollars the right way, by restoring safe and healthy housing conditions and dignity to its residents to preserve our public housing infrastructure.

The fact that we had rooms in this small house that were shut down because they are full of mold.

We are not fixing the problem. But when we can't actually answer fundamental questions about how well we are spending our money and the answer to the problem is spend more money, that is a really hard thing for us to process.

I would hate to think that we're putting out of work people with lower skills, and we need the dignity of work.

Madam President, I want to report to the Senate on attending the detention center in my home State of Florida. I stood on the floor last week and reported that a lot had changed. I just returned again from South Florida, where I was…

What are we talking about here?

This, as in all advances in technology, can be seen as the great hope for making things better, or the new idea that there might be new dangers involved.

Thank you very much Chairman Luetkemeyer for holding this hearing.

I will remind everyone that it was Mr. Luetkemeyer and I who were working on this bill.

Our bill gets at the fundamental purpose of what we are discussing today.

I share your enthusiasm about using innovative technologies to solve many of the problems we have in today's financial system.

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to urge my colleagues in the House to support my legislation, H.R. 299, the Blue Water Navy Vietnam Veterans Act. More than 6 decades ago, the United States deployed troops to Vietnam to fight communism and…

There is a serious danger in lead-based paint.

It just seems that with an acting secretary waiting for confirmation... we are not putting our best foot forward on this project and it is a disappointment.

if we are interested in solving this problem, we ought to do something that would demonstrate that we are interested.