"I would like to arrange for the members of this Committee or their staffs to meet with HUD."
"According to the latest US Conference of Mayors Report on Homelessness, homelessness has gotten worse nationwide."
"I think this was a conscious decision of the Bush administration, of Secretary Preston, without the mission to FHA and then Fannie and Freddie to go out there, the mortgage market in the United States..."
"I applaud you for your intense focus on health care."
"During the course of the Bush administration, the OMB has acquired the role and reputation of being the political fixer and hit man for the administration in agency regulatory proceedings."
"It is an absolutely critical choice that our country faces."
"I think I am making a slightly different point, thinking longer term about the health care problem per se, and that as that $35 trillion tsunami hits us, we cannot cope with that from a fiscal point o..."
"The worry I have is that if we do not get started rapidly on those strategies..."
"But unless there is a lead time on the other one, we may not avoid it."
"I fully support his efforts for preventive health care, for better pricing on prescription drugs, and for better use of medical technology and information technology."
"How do we raise the wages and, therefore, the standard of living, of middle-income Americans?"
"I think the President has made a very wise choice. Your service and your personal experience reinforces the best ideals of this country."
"It strikes me that the problem here is that in order to achieve those large reductions, a considerable amount of executive management, of experimentation, of flexible and dynamic regulatory activity g..."
"I applaud the more honest picture that this budget presents."
"We have three major significant problems to deal with. We have one supply of political capital to deal with them."
"the Bush administration has added nearly $8 trillion to the national debt versus where the budget was planned to go."
"This discussion matters a great deal not just to CBO economists and Senators on the Budget Committee."
"Not likely to happen now."
