Mike Johanns: “I am just saying we are buying top-dollar design and construction at a time that we do not have the money to pay for it.”

Somehow we have got to figure out a better way, because at the most important time in this person's life, when they are crying out for help, it should be a simple, straight-forward pathway to access that help.

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