I hope that now President Obama can find a middle road between the kind of Government-private sector planning.

I hear the NRC has revamped its process for licensing new power plants. It is not progressing as well as some of us would like.

If we are given the authority and the financial resources, yes, we are the agency that can do it, can do it well, and can do it quickly.

Most people, if given the chance, can really begin to move themselves firmly into the middle class.

I think you raise a very important point which programs do not seem to really recognize that many of those families...

Do you understand the dilemma that some families are in that were homeowners--not homeless people, but homeowners.

I just cannot tell you how upsetting it is to homeowners who were literally washed out of their homes...

Do you have any estimate of what those resources might be at this point?

One size does not fit all, there are different needs in different parts of the country.

many of the people that I represent engaged in none of that behavior, and Mother Nature and the Corps of Engineers, when their levees failed, foreclosed on their homes.

I would hope that the new Administration would think that there is some better way than just, again, the trailer option for housing people.

It signaled to me a real basic understanding that this catastrophe is going to have to be a multi-faceted approach from a variety of different Federal agencies.

I think it is very important for that exercise to continue because the people that this office is attempting to serve are very interested in how this office is functioning.

there is still a huge problem for people in the Gulf Coast area.

the whole country understands the tremendous challenges that HUD has before it with the unprecedented housing crisis now engulfing the Nation.

I would hope so because you can imagine how heart-wrenching--that is really a good word--it is to me to have really pressed so hard from a policy perspective to have a rental repair program adopted.

It is so disturbing to find out that not only are we not in tip-top shape, we could potentially be the worst FEMA-run office.

A plan to put people in travel trailers and mobile homes in Times Square or in Long Island will not work.