"last summer Senator Ben Sasse and I wrote a letter to CFPB Director Cordray, garnered roughly 70 signatures from our colleagues urging the CFPB to utilize their Dodd-Frank authority to more carefully tailor financial rules to match the unique roles of community banks and credit unions."
"How can we help cities like Gary combat housing blight if the CDBG Program is eliminated?"
"How can we help end veteran homelessness when we are cutting the very programs intended to help them?"
"the concern, the thought, the heartbreak of one veteran who does not have a place to go home to..."
"the elimination of CDBG makes this much, much more difficult, makes it much, much more challenging."
"How do you plan to utilize HUD's resources to help house our homeless veterans?"
"Can I have your commitment that, if confirmed, you will advocate for HUD to dedicate the resources needed..."
"We need to have a strong crop insurance sector in the farm bill."
"They will take greater risk."
"The way you learn is by trying and by doing."
"They are learning all the time and it is becoming of increasing concern."