"I would like to thank Senator Tim Johnson for his leadership in bringing this hearing to South Dakota."
"While nationwide it is viewed as a crisis when unemployment nears 9 or 10 percent, at Standing Rock we have long-term unemployment, year after year, in excess of 50 percent."
"Poverty on our reservation remains widespread, with 4 in every 10 homes on the reservation earning less than 30 percent of Median Family income for the area."
"I am counting on them to lead the charge to create more jobs and grow our economy."
"we are going to name this, if we can--the work we are working on--the Frank Melville Supportive Housing Investment Act."
"I believe the legislation that we have both introduced to revitalize this important program will result in the production of hundreds of thousands more units of permanent supportive housing across the..."
"While the need is obviously great, only a trickle of affordable units come on line each year."
"This approach, a public-private partnership leveraging existing tax credits for expanded use, is included, on a national scale, in both the Chairman's legislation, S. 1481, the Frank Melville Supporti..."
"What makes supportive housing work, as you know, Chairman Dodd, is that it is not just the house, but it is the support services that come along with it to make sure that that individual not only has ..."
"I think is tremendously worthwhile, and I would be remiss if I didn't mention, as well, the tremendous work done by Herb Kohl in this area."
"I would invite my colleagues, and I think several of you are cosponsors of this, the bill I have introduced called the Livable Communities Act."