Richard Blumenthal actually said...

"I want to thank you for recognizing this very, very important topic."

"There is a real and pressing need to move forward on many of these issues."

"I think this hearing is very important because it deals with mental health, with equality of justice, and with homelessness."

"the goal here is to go beyond meeting the immediate, as you say, the urgent apparent need that may be on the streets right now, but to provide a more permanent solution, and that is the goal here, an ..."