But if I could just jump in, because the time is ticking here, you say you are worried that you will be overwhelmed by more people.

Last year by HUD's own miscalculations there was a $250 million dollar shortfall in the Public Housing Operating Fund...

I think it has been a heroic and extraordinary effort, and a special salute to the people of Texas.

I think we're all in agreement that there needs to be a thorough and rigorous and candid investigation of what went wrong.

I am not talking about philosophy. I am talking about real criteria here.

I cannot encourage you more for both ideas, efficiencies, good policies, et cetera, but we are facing serious issues on bioterrorism and possibly chemical terrorism.

I think what you are asking for is the opportunity to pull together a task force.

And I do not know if they are foreclosing. I just think they are sending scare letters.

This is a cut of almost 6 percent, when we have such compelling needs to protect the environment.

I was deeply disappointed that the budget request only provided $5.48 billion for fiscal year 2004.

If you don't pick them up, they're cosmologists, astrophysicists, so many separate fields of physics that I couldn't even describe.

It is a program that needs to be reformed or if it is not going to stay as HOPE VI, we need to then think about how else we can create hope.

Did the VA decide on an enrollment for cost reasons, or did you also think by an enrollment, it would also be a deterrent for those people to come to you?

I am very concerned about the issues related to the elderly housing and we would welcome your ideas on what we are doing and can do about housing for the elderly as well as in public housing.

That is a process answer. I want a due date. I am done with process.

I want to hear about people, not programs, about advocacy, not accounting.

The administration has zeroed out HOPE VI at the end of this year. This means that there is going to be $600 million cut out of community development.

I think there has been a lack of leadership on the Board.

As you know, there are advocates who are very troubled by this.

We want to know what is left out there and the need.

I need urgency, urgency, urgency here.

What appears is that a lot of the predatory lending, the gouging of the poor, has occurred at the so-called subprimes.

State and local governments are really hurting and they are hurting because, one, their own budget issues...

I do find it commendable what you have been doing.

Well, when are you going to get it down?