This is about a housing shortage. This is about housing affordability. This is about enabling homeless families to get a roof over their head.

I want to just, first of all, thank you for the focus on the ports of L.A. As well as Long Beach.

I just want to associate myself with some of the comments about executability. I am deeply concerned about the dollar values here.

We need fewer bureaucrats in the agency and maybe more focus on how do we get this money to the neighborhoods.

Let's service them and not necessarily bureaucrats who are making more money off of these programs.

Only about 15 percent of that gets to the ground, Madam Secretary. That is all I am saying. It is woefully inefficient, and we can do better.

$61 billion rounding up, $60.8 billion, would be sufficient. If you assume 500,000 homeless people in our country right now, which is a rough estimate plus or minus, that $61 billion is enough to give every homeless person in our Nation…

These numbers don't make sense, and I think--I think you are not getting all of the power to the ground, the power of the American taxpayer dollar to the ground in these neighborhoods where we need to be making the investments that you…

Even at 5 million, you are still putting about $12,000 per year to each of these 5 million people.

I believe it is a noble mission. But I am a numbers guy, and as an appropriator, especially right now where our Nation is seeing record inflation, 8.5 percent, and a debt of $30 trillion at the Federal level, we have got to pay attention…

An assault on women.

If Russia is not listed as a state sponsor of terrorism, tear up the list.

we must have it be enshrined as the law of the land.

Sometimes it really just takes something as appalling and at such an assault on privacy on precedent on the constitution on personal liberty, the rights of women and family.

I don`t care how the draft leaked. That`s a sideshow. What I care about is that a small number of conservative justices who lied about their plans to the Senate, intend to deprive millions of women of reproductive care. Codifying Roe isn`t…

codifying Roe isn’t enough, we must expand the court.

That`s just completely bogus. And it`s a smokescreen for -- I don`t know what he thinks he`s trying to prove.

It`s not at all acceptable, that he bailed at the last minute.