When you drive up to my hometown from Boston, you go along this beautiful beach right between Lynn and Swampscott. It is called King's Beach, literally fit for a king, and yet it is closed 90 percent of the time.

Clearly, this isn't working. So we have to figure this out.

That can't be the speed at which our government works.

Let's create the partnership. Let's get it done.

I would like to work with you on that, to have a pilot project, so that we might be able to accomplish that goal.

Conditions are unacceptably dangerous and inaccessible.

Is there a reason--the other question is, why has not Rudy Giuliani--if he is such a key witness and was on the ground...

So the GSA is willing, then, to transfer GSA lease buildings in whole or in part to nonprofits and local governments to be used for affordable housing?

The Massachusetts emergency shelter system has 6,500 families right now and 22,000 individuals in a shelter system that is at capacity.

My colleagues across the aisle have already made it clear they don't care about diversity.

It is important that the SEC be on the right side of history and press forward with the corporate board diversity.

Clearly, this isn't working. So we have to figure this out.

Conditions are unacceptably dangerous and inaccessible.

I would like to work with you on that, to have a pilot project, so that we might be able to accomplish that goal.

That can't be the speed at which our government works.

Let's create the partnership. Let's get it done.

So the GSA is willing, then, to transfer GSA lease buildings in whole or in part to nonprofits and local governments to be used for affordable housing?

It is a no brainer that we ought to be converting surplus Federal assets into properties that may be used to provide emergency shelters, permanent housing, and services to the homeless.