Mike Johanns: “The other thing I wanted to ask you about--it is great to go home and tell people how we improved benefits.”

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.

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

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.