"Section 8 tenant-based rental, a critical tool for a lot of our families today."
"Congress has struggled for a long time to balance the need to serve as many families as possible with the need to ensure that we are managing the growth in this program's cost."
"What we do not want people to have is the promise of vouchers for a budget that in the future we cannot sustain."
"But I do need to signal to you some major challenges with the transformation initiative proposal that you put forth."
"What we need to see for our oversight and for our appropriations mark this year is what those initiatives are going to cost this year."
"So we need to know what the specific amounts for this year, as we are allocating for a yearlong appropriation bill, what the benefits are, and what kind of flexibility you are asking for."
"Well as you know, our role is oversight, and we are always asked for flexibility, and then we get yelled at for funds that were misused."
"I could not agree more with the chair that with flexibility must come accountability."
"We want to see the idea of supportive housing really which this subcommittee has pushed for a long time."
"Just because a child does not have an address does not mean they should not get an education."
"President Obama signed the HEARTH Act, homeless reauthorization bill, into law."
"You should know that every one from the veterans to the community members, all the Spokane VA employees, to their medical center director, Sharon Hellman: they've all been working very, very hard to m..."
