"How do you account for the growing homelessness in Atlanta?"
"The reason we are all here today is because of the bold and admirable leadership of Chairwoman Nydia Velazquez."
"I commend Ms. Velazquez for her tireless work on improving the lives of public housing and subsidized housing residents everywhere."
"She is able to be the best advocate for small businesses, a distinction in the Congress of the United States of America."
"Thank you very much, Carolyn, for your work."
"It takes Nydia's leadership to take a bill that has been on the books since 1968, dust it off, put it back to work, and turn it onto a mandate."
"My only addition is that the $2 million is not enough. I would support her in pushing it up to $50 million."
"When Nydia and I served on the City Council, there were 700,000 people waiting to get into New York City public housing. There are now 200,000 people waiting to get into New York City public housing."
"Thank you very much."
"I am still shaken from yesterday when we had the financial services community representatives, bankers, etc., come before us and take on the consumer financial agency with great opposition."
"I am even more shaken with what is happening in the underground with the huge amount of money that the bankers and financial services community representatives are going to spend to lobby Members of C..."
"The Major Drug Traffic and Prosecution Act would eliminate mandatory minimum sentences for drug offenses and redirect Federal prosecutorial resources toward major drug traffickers."