Mike Johanns: “I will be very honest, I am not sure why people bother with it. Because it has to be so impossibly cumbersome.”

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

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.