Mike Johanns: “The one thing I could always get business and labor to agree on was investment in infrastructure.”

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

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…

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

I just hope we are not over-engineering something here.