Mike Johanns: “The proportion of Americans in the labor force is now less than 63 percent.”

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

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

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

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.