Richard Baker: “Does the gentleman mean these people are telling us if somebody goes to work they want them to be able to keep the…”

I am trying to understand. Apparently all the discussion has been unable to make our case quite clearly. Is it the circumstance, in the gentleman's opinion, if a working family is in public housing today and mom is at home, and they…

I truly do not believe we could have prevented it, but we could have prevented the financial meltdown that we are in today with better regulation and more responsible oversight.

Does that mean, if the gentleman will continue to yield, that if we keep the current system in place, we discourage people from getting job skills and going to work and maybe one day moving out of public housing? Is that the problem?

We are characterizing local public housing authorities across this country as people who do not care about those people. By and large, are not most of these individuals who serve on these authorities either very low paid or volunteers…