Richard Blumenthal actually said...

"I think the most telling word in that title is 'service.' You have truly been of service to the veterans of America."

"The increase, in my view, really ought to be a permanent one."

"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 ..."

"I think that there is a need for more outreach to the homeless, from what I have seen at least in Connecticut."