More housing needs to be built in order to lower prices.
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Federal bureaucrats should not step in the way. We must do more to address federal regulatory burdens.
We are going to have to--you know, STEM degrees are under produced in Indiana, for instance, and we need more of them to fill that high demand, very high pay niche.
They are going to make more money in many cases than most four-year degrees would produce, and they are going to have a job from the day they get their diploma.
When I do visit all 92 counties in our State, by far the issue I hear even above and beyond rural broadband, affordable housing, would be workforce.
I challenge employers throughout the country to make sure to take that into consideration.
I want to give a shout out to a company in Indiana, the Cook Medical Group, who does medical device manufacturing as its business, but it has taken on trying to make affordable housing something that they are going to try to make--weigh in…
But regulation, as it comes from here especially. Can you cite a couple of the key regulations that drive costs up?
I mean, that just seems outrageously high as a median, and that is actually higher than what the median is across the country.
Federal Government, I think too, can help generally on the main drivers of an economy that folks are wondering what do we have, by not spending and borrowing more, because you don't need a macroeconomics degree, that creates inflation.
I think the solutions to all of these are probably left best to the laboratory of the states.
I think that is the wrong way to accomplish maybe a goal that is noble to help those that need help affording a place to live, but not like that.
Spending policies, I think, have exacerbated an already unaffordable housing market.
A lot of times things we do here are well-intended, but you cannot do it by borrowing from future generations.
Under the Biden Administration, Americans are less able to afford a home than practically any other time in our history.
The fox is in the hen house when it comes to providing supplies across VA and veteran small businesses are suffering.
As the chairman last Congress of Technology Modernization Subcommittee, and as ranking member of the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee this Congress, I have seen how large an impact contracting has on the VA.
I have introduced legislation to create an acquisition review board at the VA this Congress