Mike Quigley

I truly and really don't want to talk to your successor next year and have the same question answered the same way.

When do we think we will get some whiff that the study is complete and some conclusions as to what is an appropriate DNL or at least some analysis of what different levels on that spectrum do to people of different ages and health and so…

I don't think anyone argues that that number, 65 DNL, wasn't at the time it was put in place just pulled out literally of the air.

I am the vice chair of the Quiet Skies Caucus. I have been doing this 14 years.

I consider continuing resolutions purgatory and 20 percent cuts hell.

Clearly, the problems and challenges are extraordinary, but the opportunities are great.

I don't feel like I am buying a ticket. I feel like I am buying a chance, all right.

The work has got to be a bipartisan solution where both sides sit down and work through these issues.

Mr. Secretary, as I am sure you have learned, our chairman is a good friend, and a very thoughtful, hard-working chairman.

Don't worry about the clock when you speak. When the chairman speaks, time stops.

If I had to predict, we do things later than we should.

I am proud of the investments we made last year.

This Nation faces significant challenges with housing affordability and homelessness.

It is always great to see a former House colleague, especially one who shares our interest in transforming our Nation's housing infrastructure.

I do think these are valuable as an outlet for people to express the issues they have to us.

I mean, as they tell us, housing is transit and transit is housing. The two are inexorably linked.

Thank you, Chair. The chair is right; this subcommittee funds programs that impact every district in the country.

I reminded the staff here today that a gentleman named Edward Everett spoke for 3 hours at Gettysburg, and no one remembers it. Lincoln spoke for under 3 minutes; a lesson for all of us.

I also look forward to working with you and this entire committee in this next Congress. There is a lot of work to do, but couldn't ask for better partners.

We look forward to working with you on that.

At that point in time, are you able to function and complete the duties that you are assigned to?

I was in the room on January 6. I wasn't sure--not sure I would be here without the extraordinary efforts on that day.

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 2, line 13, strike ``date of enactment of this subsection'' and insert ``date on which the Secretary…

I was in the room on January 6. I wasn't sure--not sure I would be here without the extraordinary efforts on that day.

I would hate for them to pay $160 as a price on my life.