12/05/2011
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"Only 16 percent of those households that qualify for LIHEAP assistance actually apply for and receive it."
"If we're really trying to help the low-income people in this country not spend 20 percent of their income on energy, LIHEAP is part of the solution; is it not?"
"unless we start, as a committee, requiring accountability in these various departments, nothing is going to happen."
"we, as a Congress, have got to take some blame for what is going on; and I think this committee is poised to do the right thing."