06/01/2009
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"the problem is it saves money not for HUD but for the Medicaid program, for the corrections system, for State and local governments."
"I want to switch now to another issue that is a potential fiscal time bomb in HUD's budget."
"It is fundamentally unfair for the Federal Government to award grants to States, only then to take them away."
"An additional $167 billion in new revenues would have to be established to support a bill of this magnitude."