But if my memory serves me correctly, only about 40 percent of all the residents in the city were homeowners.

But under the disaster program, is there such a formula?

It has made a tremendous difference. So many people are facing foreclosure, cannot come back to our State, are in terrible duress because they have been short-changed.

I believe that CDBG needs a formula for an initial tranche of money for rapid initial response.

I think that I heard all of you say that you would suggest some changes to the program.

I will continue to have as many hearings as it takes until we get this correct.

I hope, Senator Landrieu, that you will read my summary of pleas from applicants, asking for justice and fairness.

I do not have any doubt that Dr. Groves is up to the challenge and that he commands the respect both inside and outside the Census Bureau to fully restore confidence in the agency's competence and integrity.

I feel the need, though, to reiterate that although Census Day may officially last 1 day, its impact is felt over the course of a full decade.

Without an equal education for all there cannot be equality for all, the kind of equality that our founding documents promised.

If it is working well enough to be continued for those children currently in the program until they graduate from school, then it should also be continued for succeeding generations of new students.

Despite some criticism in GAO's initial assessment, DCPS appears to be on the right path to improving public education for the District's children.

I believe in putting kids before special interest groups, and that is really what this is about.

We need to have choices. And if choices and experiments can show that one thing is working, maybe the public schools will see that one thing that is working and copy it.

If the Opportunity Scholarship Program is not working, it should be terminated for all children.

In America it should not be a privilege for any of our children to get a first rate education.

The work Chancellor Rhee and Mayor Fenty have done to reform the school system is remarkable.

The 2nd Bomb Wing, located at Barksdale Air Force Base, has an urgent need for a new Weapons Load Training Facility.

Thank you for honoring your commitment to come down to the Gulf Coast early in your term.

Well, I would just suggest in my 16 seconds remaining that there are models that we can find in other countries, Mr. Chairman--in Japan, which has storm surge issues, in the Netherlands, where 60 percent of their country lies below sea…

The problem is some of these communities, particularly in our State--Cameron Parish, South Cameron, that comes to mind, Grand Isle--are historic communities, they have been here for hundreds of years.

Senator Collins and I introduced, and the Senate passed, an amendment to the budget resolution a short while ago for the next fiscal year that added $500 million for security at the Southwest border.

I think that this use of the mechanisms you have now put in place to work on this long-term recovery from Hurricane Katrina give us an ideal way to test some of these thoughts and build into the national recovery framework.

I am particularly concerned that there is not enough new support being directed to inspections of southbound traffic to disrupt the flow of illicit guns and cash that the drug cartels use to wage war against each other and too frequently…

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