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What is wrong with having a voucher for a person who needs a house?

We do have to build more houses. We do have to loosen the up zoning up.

How do you, if you are a young person, if you are a person starting out, how do you afford a house now?

I do believe that we need these vouchers, and I very much support them.

Thank you, Madam Chairwoman, for this very, very important and critical hearing.

I am proud to join Chairwoman Waters and the distinguished gentleman from New York, Mr. Torres, in proposing the Ending Homelessness Act of 2021.

Through your leadership, Chairwoman Waters, even the most vulnerable among us... continue to have representation in these halls.

Now having gone through this very difficult experience do you have any thoughts on how we could do that and how our President could send a strong message to our adversaries?

I certainly commend you and the Colonial Pipeline workers for how quickly they worked with both private assets and Federal agencies to get the pipeline back up and running in as reasonably short time as possible.

Rural areas deserve public transit as well, and while there are fewer people there is often more ground to cover.

We have got to provide more funding and we have got to lower the barrier.

We got to make sure that the people have their voice and our own democracy. And unfortunately, we`re living in a moment in which there is one party that has decided that rather than adjust their message, they want to shift and distort the…

We need the John Lewis Voting Rights Act because it has the powerful tool called preclearance which will protect future elections. We got to find a way to protect the assault on democracy that`s happening right now.

I find it deeply disturbing but not surprising that Justice Scalia would be caught up in a secret, private meeting with legislators.

Just the mere fact of meeting and having a private breakfast is deeply disturbing.

The same family, and Dr. Richard Sackler in particular, who are largely responsible for creating the opioid epidemic are now poised to rake in billions of dollars for a new drug that they say will wean people off of OxyContin.

Since 1999, almost half a million people have died from opioid overdoses in this country.

The actions of Purdue Pharma and the Sackler family are blamed justly for fueling the U.S. opioid crisis.