Tom Latham: “I really hope today we can just have dialogue.”

I appreciate the gentleman's attention to this important safety issue and for highlighting the promise of this research initiative. I look forward to working with you as our bill moves through the legislative process to make certain DADSS…

I am in opposition to the gentleman's amendment. As you know, one of the very important functions of this committee is oversight--ensuring agencies under our purview are effectively and efficiently managed. The bill provides the Amtrak OIG…

We would be more than happy to accept the amendment in the interest of time if we could move on.

All this would do is limit the employees of HUD, and it would do nothing to the PHA employees. PHA employees are not HUD employees; and all you are doing is limiting funding to HUD employees, so it would have no effect as far as the PHAs…