John W. Olver: “I think most everybody in the room... would agree that HUD has been a neglected Department for many years”

I will then move to strike the last word. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Massachusetts is recognized for 5 minutes.

Well, that can be established if they actually have a referendum that repeals what they have done. But there has been--as we know, California has received about $4 billion of moneys from the Federal Government from earlier funds in earlier…

I rise in opposition. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Massachusetts is recognized for 5 minutes.

The European Union has implemented an emissions trading regimen as a means of reducing greenhouse gas emissions 20 percent below 1990 levels. They are not succeeding very much. They are putting in a fairly hard effort to do that, but the…