Tim Johnson: “The Federal Home Loan Banks play a critical role in our Nation's housing finance and community lending system.”

$200 million would be eliminated from water and sewer grants to small communities.

I think it is easy for us to sit here in a committee room and say that, Well, these military personnel should just forego getting credit.

It seems to me that they ought to be able to part with at least some of them for some of the housing crisis problems we have in Indian country.

It seems to me that FEMA ought to be more creative, ought to be more innovative, ought to be thinking outside of their own little jurisdictional box.