I think it has been a very important hearing, a very fruitful hearing.

I want to thank Mr. Rutherford for his leadership.

I am pleased to see that you have expanded the eligibility criteria in your request for $300 million for a competitive bridge program.

I am exceedingly pleased with how you put this proposal forward.

I want to thank you for your leadership, Madam Secretary.

I would like to work with you on that.

The idea of ending homelessness, you know, may have once seemed kind of out of reach in a dream, but we are making real progress towards this goal.

There is no better subcommittee, there is no better committee to serve on in Congress than this one here.

We provided nearly $500 million for new vouchers for this program--for this population, I should say, over the past 2 years.

The research, I believe, leads to improved policies. Frankly, there are few areas as important as our common goal of eliminating discrimination and expand opportunities.

Your stalwart support of fair housing enforcement has not gone unnoticed, and I thank this committee for putting fair housing on the agenda today.

I represent a district that is urban and rural, and I have seen the challenges of rural bridge infrastructure in my State.

The chairman and I continue to monitor efforts to recover from hurricanes, and severe flooding, including Irma, Michael in Florida, Matthew, et cetera.

Linking the Federal resources to innovation and with public and private partnerships will be a key to building our future, our real infrastructure for the next generation.

Mr. Chairman, thank you very much. I also would like to welcome our witnesses today, and I thank Chairman Price for holding this important hearing.

I don't care what you want to call it, CRs. And you can put names to the CRs.

I love being on this subcommittee, and as I think a lot of folks saw today, these issues are a lot more complex than people think, right.

There is always a lot more requests than funding.