According to the latest US Conference of Mayors Report on Homelessness, homelessness has gotten worse nationwide.
It is not just affordable housing, it is safe and affordable housing.
I hope that as a member of the President's Economic Team, you will make stabilizing the housing market one of your chief...
I point out in my State of Connecticut, the average two-bedroom apartment, you have got to make $21 an hour to afford it...
If confirmed, you will, at times, be their only voice in housing policy discussions that occur within the Obama Administ...
My point is that all of the efforts to make sure that FHA is running its programs in the most effective possible manner ...
I think we had over 30 of them over the last 2 years, plus some efforts we made in this area.
I would like to thank Chairman Dodd and Ranking Member Shelby for scheduling this nomination hearing so quickly, an impo...
I am just wondering, specifically with respect to these types of programs, but more generally, how are we going to suppo...
I would hope that you would be able to alert this Committee very quickly as to what you consider to be the needs, the te...
I commend the President. I have had the privilege of working with Mr. Donovan in many capacities.
I applaud you for your intense focus on health care.
Opening statements, comments, or prepared statements of: Senator Reed
I want to thank Senator Shelby and the members of the Committee, because when we passed the housing bill last summer...
I think this was a conscious decision of the Bush administration, of Secretary Preston, without the mission to FHA and t...
During the course of the Bush administration, the OMB has acquired the role and reputation of being the political fixer ...
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 t...