Is that your purpose here, to tell us how you stole the HUD funds?
I would like to go into executive session, because I would like to ask this witness questions...
So you are a thief on the one hand but you are very generous with the National Republican Congressional Campaign Committee.
Let me first of all, Ms. Smith, so you defrauded the HOME Program and embezzled the HOME Program between 2000 and 2005. Is that correct?
Okay. Good. We finally got to the HUD funds, and why you are here.
I am sorry. It is like this doesn't pass any remote test.
It seems to me if we want to know, we should find out who they were and call them.
I believe the way this hearing is being conducted makes clear that the purpose today is to score political points and generate exciting head...
I have 11 letters in support of the HOME Program, and I ask unanimous consent to submit them for the record.
The embezzlement that we are going to hear about from the convicted felons began under George Bush's Administration.
Why didn't we ask any of them to come and testify before us?