I think continuing in that direction is important.
There are market distortions in our transportation system that mean that we don't take full advantage of the opportunity for cost savings.
There are so many opportunities for safety, for improved productivity, for better health effects.
As long as the market does not take into account the costs that we all bear for some of these activities, there isn't an incentive, a market...
I mean, I grew up in Youngstown, Ohio, and I saw what happens when people don't--and how they vote later--when people aren't treated with re...
Well, thank you, Chairman, very much.
We have always appreciated it, at DOT OIG, this committee's, and your colleagues' committees over on the House side, concern and interest in...
Just last year, we were faced with another threat of cuts due to sequester in the level of defense and non-defense budget caps, and with Sen...
In Rhode Island, nearly 42,000 households spend more than 50 percent of their income on rent.
What this country does need is investment in our airports, bridges, roads, transit systems.
I think HUD is on the right track. We're certainly anxious to see them do a little bit more.
We have been very aggressive in pushing family self-sufficiency programs, job plus programs.
I am pleased that both houses unanimously passed the Housing Opportunity through Modernization Act. That bill made important changes to HUD ...
It amounts to what I call partial disarmament on the part of the safety regulator. That is most disturbing.
Thank you very much, Madam Chairman.
But this discussion is touching upon public housing.
This gap is not unique to Rhode Island. It spans the entire Nation.
That's something we could sort of find in probably every Federal agency, and that is a real, real problem.
