"When Senator Brown asked you a question during the confirmation process, she asked if you believed that HUD currently provides, and I will quote, 'extra rights to the LGBTQ people,' I am quoting, 'tha..."
"There are particular groups that have been discriminated against more than others obviously and that is why you have the training materials."
"If these shelters, if these facilities need to know how to comply, just removing the existing instructions does not help."
"I do not see the boldness. I think you look at what you talked about, an aging infrastructure, but who is using what?"
"Millennials are not buying cars. They are doing rideshares, they are riding bikes, and, thank God, they are using public transportation."
"Look, METRA and the Chicago Transit Authority are not worried about permitting."
"You just took away half the funding for the Direct Grant Program."
"We have just got to have some inclination. You have given us the lead on this that we do not care as much about public transportation."
"But you cut it in half, so you have got to--it cannot be a priority if you cut it in half."
"Simpson-Bowles, I believe, really only had one major vote on the House side, and that was Cooper-LaTourette..."
"Obviously, my colleagues in the Chicagoland area, including Senator Durbin and I, are deeply disappointed, a mild expression, in discussion with the McCook Reservoir and the funding there."
"It is inconceivable how such a top-tier, fully authorized flood protection project, 65 percent complete, and an active Federal construction, a 3-to-1 benefit-cost ratio, it is not just a Democratic pr..."