The President's budget laid out a path that would achieve primary balance by 2017.

I am deeply concerned about the President's lack of leadership on the challenge we face.

we should be trying to decrease the cost of Federal procurements, not put artificial requirements and barriers

The President's budget has huge and expanding deficits for the next 10 years. It does not bring the deficit down.

Do you think that this level of spending is sustainable?

the $400 billion in savings that the President has proposed is less than one penny for every dollar that the President is proposing to spend

Achieving primary balance in a single year, a year that is several years from now, is not the same thing as getting long-term spending under control.

the law granting the Federal Government, for the first time, the authority to regulate the security of the Nation's highest risk chemical facilities is due to expire on March 18. We cannot allow this to occur. Given the success of this law…

I rise to express my deep concern that the Senate has yet to consider the Defense appropriations bill for fiscal year 2011. As the Presiding Officer is well aware, we should have completed work on this bill and every other appropriations…

As you know, a lot of these housing issues are relatively new to me, and as I have been learning about the various programs, I have wondered why we still have public housing and whether or not we should be moving to a system where we give…

It is the height of irresponsibility if Government is allowed to shut down, and would represent a colossal failure that would reflect poorly on everyone involved.

There is a basic philosophical issue that I believe that the Congress and the administration need to confront regarding the future role of FHA.

I will tell her staff that I enjoyed it very much and that I look forward to working with Madam Chairman Murray.

the problem is it saves money not for HUD but for the Medicaid program, for the corrections system, for State and local governments.

I think that everyone is for effective coordination, and the partnership with the VA on that program is absolutely critical to reaching the veterans who need help, and I have seen the success in my own State.

Thank you, Madam Chairman.

I would also encourage you to work very closely with the new inspector general when he or she is appointed.

I agree with the chairman that we need to have a better understanding of how money is being allocated.

When the men and women of our armed forces return home, we have an obligation to welcome them all the way home.

I think the key was that there was such a focus and there was so much more transparency than is typical of many Federal programs.

An additional $167 billion in new revenues would have to be established to support a bill of this magnitude.

We're still going to have a challenge of the reauthorization, which was put in the budget, goes through, because we're going to have to work to figure out how to fund that, as well.

First, let me associate myself with the Chairman's comments. I was thinking, having recently moved, that this affects not only the buyer of the house, the seller, the moving company--the ripple effects go on and on. And that's why we…

As we all know, home purchases provide an important economic stimulus, with benefits to local communities in the form of jobs and local development.

I am appalled to learn of numerous investigations uncovering embezzlement by senior management of PHAs.