Mario Díaz-Balart

Looking forward to continuing to work with you.

Your work and your knowledge has been invaluable and I want to thank you.

I commend you for your focus on this particular group of people.

Thank you again and your staff, the HUD staff for your answers and for participating in this committee.

I do want to mention one more time, on a personal note, my gratitude for your sensitivity and--frankly, your just--what is the right word--your willingness to step up, come forward immediately after that tragedy of the overpass at FIU and…

I would be happy to talk with you a little bit about Grand Staircase Escalante.

thank you for Grand Staircase Escalante and for Bears Ears.

The Ortega regime was responsible for arbitrary or unlawful killings, torture, lack of independence in the judiciary.

It is not just a Venezuelan problem.

It is not 25 percent. It is not a third. It is not a half. It is 1 percent.

I don't think any other person who was running for office would have had the courage to do what he did.

I believe you are trying to thread a needle. I really do.

I think the notion that that regime was a decaffeinated dictatorship is no longer the case.

I think that it is a bit of a shake-up, but in an organization that needs a shake-up every hundred years or so.

We know that the rail network is obviously a critical component of our transportation system and frankly of the national economy.

Mr. Secretary, the country is lucky to have your willingness to serve, and we thank you for your service.

I am glad to hear that.

I just want to make sure that we kind of put things in perspective.

Thank you very much, Madam Secretary.

Clearly, and obviously there is also the issue of, again, there are in some cases, it doesn't seem to be helping those that it is trying to help.

We are going to get to the bottom of it.

One of Secretary Carson's main priorities, I have heard him say that, is the envision centers initiative...

We ought to make sure that whatever we have to do to make sure that something like that is not repeated is done.

Thousands of my constituents in northeast Queens are bombarded daily by helicopter noise...

We wanted to show how important it is to use that money, to put it to good use as soon as we can.