Clearly, that can take a long time, often years and years and years.

We must provide additional funding to improve the efficiency of the traditional affordable housing development process.

I've heard from young people around Rhode Island about the importance of affordable housing and I intend to do something about it.

As Senator Kaine said, if we have successful programs, we don't need additional programs to compete with them.

Helping families have a safe, stable place to call home should not be controversial.

As a nation, we underinvested in housing. It's created a harmful situation for millions of families.

Our housing crisis is primarily a crisis of supply at this point.

colleagues, today we will have the opportunity to advance the nomination of Kirk Sherriff, President Biden's nominee to serve on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California. In doing so, we have a chance to confirm a…

I ask unanimous request that I am able to complete my remarks before the beginning of the vote. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

I'm talking about just this week San Diego, the second largest city in California, one of the largest cities in America, having to declare a state of emergency after an atmospheric river brought a record of three inches in three hours.

As our changing climate continues to warm the Earth's oceans and atmosphere, the phenomenon we now refer to as atmospheric river events are becoming longer, wetter, and more severe.

A research team at Scripts Institution of Oceanography in California found atmospheric river storms caused one billion dollars annual in flood damages, not just in California.