"The Truth and Healing Commission on Indian Boarding School Policies Act is a first step toward achieving necessary measures of accountability."
"I want to just, first of all, thank you for the focus on the ports of L.A. As well as Long Beach."
"I just want to associate myself with some of the comments about executability. I am deeply concerned about the dollar values here."
"I believe it is a noble mission. But I am a numbers guy, and as an appropriator, especially right now where our Nation is seeing record inflation, 8.5 percent, and a debt of $30 trillion at the Federa..."
"$61 billion rounding up, $60.8 billion, would be sufficient. If you assume 500,000 homeless people in our country right now, which is a rough estimate plus or minus, that $61 billion is enough to give..."
"These numbers don't make sense, and I think--I think you are not getting all of the power to the ground, the power of the American taxpayer dollar to the ground in these neighborhoods where we need to..."
"Even at 5 million, you are still putting about $12,000 per year to each of these 5 million people."
"Let's service them and not necessarily bureaucrats who are making more money off of these programs."
"We need fewer bureaucrats in the agency and maybe more focus on how do we get this money to the neighborhoods."
"Only about 15 percent of that gets to the ground, Madam Secretary. That is all I am saying. It is woefully inefficient, and we can do better."
"I think these manufactured homes play an important role, especially when it comes to some of the housing challenges that we have."
"This is about a housing shortage. This is about housing affordability. This is about enabling homeless families to get a roof over their head."