Mike Johanns: “Well, let me start out and thank the Chairman for holding this hearing, a very, very important topic.”

I appreciate the fact that you have the Agricultural Advisory Committee up and running. Thank you for that.

But to anyone who might be listening in who is wondering if is it time to give up, it is not.

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

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.