Let's build on those successes and gear our legislation and funding towards building on those successes.

We all have a responsibility to be about the business of economic development, opening up contracting opportunities.

We have to increase minimum wage. Everybody is talking about getting to $15, et cetera.

We cannot get around the fact that we need dollars, we need money in public housing.

It is not so much private contractors; it was your governor, it was your State that did not trust the citizens.

as Congresswoman Waters alluded to earlier.

Somehow, people don't understand or refuse to accept what poverty does to children and families.

We worked together with housing advocates to shine a bright light on problems with recovery efforts.

I introduced legislation, H.R. 1227, the Gulf Coast Hurricane Recovery Act of 2007, to help reestablish housing options.

I joined the people of New Orleans to mark the 10-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.

It is about understanding, a deep understanding and support, and in the final analysis a lot of love.