It just seems with flipping when we close 3 loopholes and the scammers and the scummers find 5 more.

I am very troubled by the President's budget request. I think it is status quo, and I think we needed another $500 million more.

I am very, very, very disappointed in the Corporation's Board.

You are under the command and control of the United States of America. You are very different from any of the other health care.

I have been involved in the issue of predatory lending and flipping for a long time now.

And the thing we do not want to do with any of these policies is penalize the poor.

I am concerned that if we follow up on this fiscal year with the meager budget proposed by the administration...

I am really frustrated, and what I feel is that Senator Bond and I have been the Board.

I believe that OMB in its work with EPA was not prepared to be bold about the administration's commitment to the environment.

We are now in our second year of our 5-year commitment.

I think the Board has been a bust. I think it has been like Enron goes nonprofit.

What about the war on terrorism? There are 162 VA hospitals. Many of them are in high-threat areas.

We need more programs like the Baltimore HELP program, not fewer.

But you do not have good data. The model is a bust.

The IG recommended a change in the law so that veterans could have privately written prescriptions filled by the VA.

the pattern of the President underestimating the VA's needs and then relying on Congress to make up the difference is simply unsustainable over the long-term.

with this bill, we take an important step to ensure the well-being of this nation and its citizens.

For fiscal year 2004, the administration's request, which is a $300 million increase over last year, is only 1 percent.

That is exactly right, and if you recall last year, just in our subcommittee, we received $40 million in requests, and they were all bona fide requests.

My biggest disappointment, however, is the cut to the plant genome program.

Today is a very tense day in the world. I know our thoughts are with our troops and the people with responsibility for leading them.

In the event of a casualty, like in a city like Baltimore, or New York, or San Francisco, would the VA hospitals there be prepared to deal with the casualties?

I really do not believe that President Bush, who I believe is a real conservative, wants to in fiscal year 2004, a presidential election year, have a program that just sputters out.

Governor Ehrlich, our new Governor of Maryland, says that his new number one priority is water and sewer projects.

The CDFI Fund has a very important mission. It invests in organizations that are dedicated to improving low-income neighborhoods, and the lives of low-income people.