I'll go to one other criminal act, which is the ultimate, most despicable, and heinous, which is an act of terrorism.

This could mean less affordable housing, more rundown public housing, more lead-paint-poisoned children.

Well, you know where I am, because we have all this distressed housing, and we have more work to be done.

We don't want to have government-subsidized slums.

We won't call them 'predators', we'll call them 'weasels.'

No. 1, the promises we made to our veterans need to be promises kept, while also making the best use of the taxpayers' dollars.

We have worked on a bipartisan basis to increase VA funding every single year, and we need to continue to do that.

I support the direction that you're going in.

Yes, we had a April 22 deadline.

Well, I'm going to----

We need to make sure that we do not have waiting lines for veterans.

We want to know about that and how are we doing with the prescription drug benefit and how you are managing it.

We would like to hear your comments on that, whether you believe that is accurate, but particularly for those who have truly been disabled because of the permanent and irrevocable wounds of war, what can we do.

We want to know the status. Have we reduced the waiting time and the waiting lines?

So you have a pharmacy benefit management. Second, you use generic drugs. You also use mail-out pharmacies...

Where there are national shortages, you could end up in a war for talent which then becomes a bidding war.

Are you, or are you not, committed to the reauthorization of HOPE VI, knowing there needs to be review, refresh, reform, but also the restoration of HOPE VI as part of an authorized, funded program?

What about the recommendations on this? There are also those that believe that because HUD has contracted out property disposition, that debt has become more expensive and fraught, rife with waste.