Brian Schatz actually said...

"Some of the arguments against more housing come from the Jim Crow Era of racist exclusion."

"I don't want you to be shy about it."

"I am not sure I have ever heard something so blunt from a Cabinet Secretary, and it is really refreshing."

"I want to know that you are alarmed, and I want to know that you are going to update the Members of the Senate who have expressed their concerns on a bipartisan basis, with some pace."