Brian Schatz actually said...

"We need to get people back to work, and housing needs to be part of those priorities."

"Decades of discriminatory housing policies have segregated neighborhoods, creating economic inequality for minority communities."

"Look, we have got to appropriate money to affordable housing, but the truth is, lots of local governments are actually creating housing shortages and then lamenting housing shortages."

"This is an honest and clean request that avoids previous gimmicks to eliminate popular programs like CDBG and HOME."