Mike Johanns: “I really urge you do to that. When I was a Cabinet member, we worked on avian influenza, and the conclusion I reached…”

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

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.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

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