Mike Johanns: “I think you are the right person for the job, and I will wrap up by saying, you do have some challenges.”

I ask for the yeas and nays. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Is there a sufficient second? There appears to be a sufficient second. The question is, Will the Senate advise and consent to the nomination of Joseph S. Hezir, of Virginia, to…

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

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.

Somehow we have got to figure out a better way, because at the most important time in this person's life, when they are crying out for help, it should be a simple, straight-forward pathway to access that help.