Mike Johanns: “I cannot even begin to describe how meaningless that last statement is to me, and here is why.”

I think it would be beneficial.

Just a word or two to both leaders. Thank you so much for your kind words. I also want to say thank you for mentioning my wife Stephanie. This has been a remarkable partnership for a lot of years, and I could not have done what I did…

Our job is to try to figure out how we deal with that puzzle, that very difficult issue of how to provide services to people who need it.

I will continue to push this legislation, but many of its provisions are things that HUD has the flexibility to implement on its own.