Do you know how many such waivers the Department has processed?

Does HUD support the concept of that bill?

It will be read very simply as a de-emphasis on the importance of their priorities.

May I also recommend that you work with the Department of Veterans' Affairs.

The act is due for reauthorization this year, and I was very happy to join with you, Mr. Chairman, in introducing the reauthorization last year.

I would hope that you would also include them in your discussions in trying to get more housing for Indian people.

zeroing out the grants is an extraordinarily troubling issue for those local communities.

Maybe we should follow up with your staff and see how this works.

The President's housing budget is completely silent on the specific housing needs that face welfare recipients.

My concern, and I appreciate what you just said, is hopefully it will work.

What we have done is change the rules...so that people are actually materially better off going to work.

We have been doing this experiment now for a couple of years.

As you can well imagine as a former business person, though, that if you had bonded, if you had gone to the banks under the projections that you were going to receive grants and it had been indicated that those were going to occur, then…

I also find it uneasy that with Congress in the business of reauthorizing TANF this year, that there is no comment with regard to housing issues.

It seems to me, again, of course you can coordinate better, you can be efficient, you can connect people to the VA.

Well, I do not think the only answer is more money, but the answer certainly involves money.

Furthermore, the Administration espouses the need to physically improve public housing; its budget actually cuts $441 million from the Public Housing Capital Fund, the program which funds public housing repairs and rehabilitation.

At some point I would appreciate it if your staff could show me whether the funds that were allocated are still going to fund the same activities with regard to drug elimination activities and security and public housing authorities.