Regrettably, that is simply not accurate.

transportation is neither a Democratic nor Republican issue. It is an American issue.

I would like to emphasize to the Secretary the importance of prioritizing the Department's regulatory agenda in the months ahead.

Training ships at our State maritime academies are rapidly approaching the end of their service lives.

The level of sexual assault and harassment remains unacceptably high.

I do believe it is one of the greatest vulnerabilities that we have facing our critical infrastructure and one that we have done the least to truly deal with in a serious way.

I have introduced a bill called the Food Recovery Act, because I do think this is something that we have to take on and challenge.

We appreciate the work that you do. We appreciate all your employees.

We are hoping that many members of the subcommittee who would like to come and visit when we have our celebration will come.

I will continue to work to ensure that this Subcommittee responds to the housing needs of these children and teenagers.

So what's wrong with HUD's system for inspection that properties could receive passing grades from HUD and then be cited by local inspectors with literally hundreds of serious code violations?

That clearly needs to be remedied.

I'm very disappointed I am that the budget, once again, proposes a $200 million reduction.

We are going to have a real challenge, as we always do, in writing this bill.

84 to 85 percent of the budget is, if you will, spoken for.

I applaud the vision.

The current formula actually counts people who are no longer living.

I know he's very much looking forward to another round of questions, and I didn't want to disappoint him in any way.