I think the LIFT bill... to develop a 20-year mortgage product to allow people to develop equity faster.

I think the LIFT bill... to develop a 20-year mortgage product to allow people to develop equity faster.

We have to get that fixed very quickly, Mr. Williams.

Helping families afford a safe, stable place to call home should be neither controversial nor partisan.

Yes, yes.

I want to move along quickly.

You call those durable skills in your opening testimony. I like that better than soft skills.

We have to get that fixed very quickly, Mr. Williams.

I was disappointed when we had a vote here in the Senate not long ago on an overwhelmingly bipartisan House proposal.

Thank you for 17 years before I was in elected office, I was a fair housing attorney in Richmond, and this is a topic that means a lot to me.

We think Pell Grant should not be just limited to college degrees. Why not high quality career and technical education?

I have been a huge advocate of CDFIs as part of the financial network, and again bipartisan.

If the federal government were to increase the amount of allocation that went out to the states, we would be able to produce or preserve more quality, affordable housing.

Key to addressing the shortage of units and bringing down costs for families is, as my friend Speaker Shekarchi from Rhode Island would say, production, production, production.

If I am a 30 year old Virginian watching this, I would--wow, I should become AI literate.

If you have one that works, you know, why you know, turn yourself into a pretzel to come up with something new.

One of the things I wanted to talk about is home ownership.

Thank you for 17 years before I was in elected office, I was a fair housing attorney in Richmond, and this is a topic that means a lot to me.