I look forward to working with the gentleman from Massachusetts.

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

the message was to cut spending. I don't know if anybody else got that message, but I certainly did in my district.

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

What is our plan B here?

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

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

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

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

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

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