Tom Latham

This is extraordinarily frustrating. You know what the situation is, as far as us writing a bill this year. We are not going to have the money.

the first stimulus bill was a one-time shot in the arm by the administration, and I think they botched it by not focusing on what was needed or what could be done.

we need to get some answers as to what the real substantial proposals are, how we are going to pay for them, and how the taxpayer is going to be affected.

the administration didn't propose a budget for 2012. They really proposed a lot of pie in the sky, a pipe-dream concept paper for what you would love to see in a reauthorization bill.

I thank the chairman for yielding time. Mr. Speaker, I do rise in support of this joint resolution. It's not because I want to, but because it is necessary to support it today. It is necessary because we are stuck in a situation that…

Because I happen to think the administration made a mistake when they canceled the Constellation program and surrendered near-space manned space flight as a government function to the Russians and Chinese.

I guess I am curious, what is the problem we are trying to solve here.

I don't like H.R. 1. I had a proposal that indicated that we should take Lee Iacocca's approach and cut everybody across the board some amount.

How can you not know how much it costs to administer a Section 8 voucher?

I want to thank you for your testimony and thank you for your continued service at HUD.

What is our plan B here?

For the first time since the Budget Act was passed in 1974, 35 years ago, there was no budget last year.

I want to welcome the administrator and thank you for coming to the subcommittee and for your testimony.

I know. But the problem is we have got to back fill $35 billion out of the general fund just to make our current commitment.

The $48 billion that you all gave us in the stimulus worked. It created 15,000 projects and put 65,000 Americans to work.

I think we all agree that taking more than a year to get appropriated funds out the door is simply unacceptable.

I just want to extend my thanks to the Ranking Member, when he was Chairman and his courtesy and kindness.

It is refreshing that the former chairman, now the ranking member, has acknowledged that the reason that they have the cash carryover is because they were so late in delivering the budget for fiscal year 2010.

How can you justify taking more money out of the trust fund for some other initiative?

If you don't know, then how can you justify the $200 million increase?

the lack of any budget last year that was done, or any assumption of responsibility for actually doing our work in Congress, that this is the reason we are in this mess today.

I look forward to working with the gentleman from Massachusetts.

the President sent up a budget. He didn't include one recommendation from this Bipartisanship Commission that has been praised so widely.

I don't see any progress actually being made on a reauthorization.

there was a failure to govern, even with 250 some members in the House and at one point 60 Senators in the United States Senate in control of the White House.