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What effect do these programs that actually incentivize folks, in my opinion, to sit out the workforce, have on the low labor participation rate?

Can I have your commitment that, if confirmed, you will advocate for HUD to dedicate the resources needed...

The elimination of CDBG makes this much, much more difficult, makes it much, much more challenging.

The concern, the thought, the heartbreak of one veteran who does not have a place to go home to...

How can we help cities like Gary combat housing blight if the CDBG Program is eliminated?

How can we help end veteran homelessness when we are cutting the very programs intended to help them?

How do you plan to utilize HUD's resources to help house our homeless veterans?

Now is the time for NATO to stand united and stand strong in the wake of the terror attacks.

I want to thank our ranking member for his thoughtful questions. I just really enjoy serving with you on this subcommittee.

This could conceivably be a precondition for that. That certainly would be leverage, one would think.

I think it should be tried. I am not worried that it would hurt the relationship.

Nevertheless, the United States needs to go on the record and try its best to fight it.

I think one way of addressing this is, number one, get rid of agenda Item 7 and put it under what is called Item 4.

I have no doubts that authoritarian regimes and the broader international community will pay some measure of attention to some of the words that are said here today.

It is answering that question that deserves our most urgent attention today.

Support for human rights and democracy around the world has been a bipartisan tradition, one of the few unifying causes in our politics.

We owe it to ourselves and to those who sacrificed so much for our liberty to keep America in the forefront of this battle.

We need to have a strong crop insurance sector in the farm bill.