Emanuel Cleaver

I was mayor during the 1990's in Kansas City, Missouri. It was an argument then.

I think the Section 8 Voucher Reform Act is extremely important, and I am finally excited about the response that this committee is giving to the inconsistencies in the Section 8 Voucher Program.

Something needs to happen. I don't know if we need to go to a greater flexibility based on regions.

Cities are being hurt, and we have no agency, I mean, or no super-regulator or mini-regulator or anybody doing anything.

I do come with and I try to keep myself calm no matter what I hear. But we do have a problem.

No matter how many times we have expert testimony which declares without ambiguity that CRA did not cause the crisis, there are those who will just continue to say it.

I wanted desperately to come to the conclusion that maybe this legislation was ill-conceived. That has not happened.

I mean, as a little boy growing up in Texas, I can remember this Congress in these walls repeatedly refusing to pass a civil rights bill.

The objective of the 287(g) program is to address serious criminal activity committed by removable aliens.

I think we have got to clean up our laws and figure out ways to address some of these issues

I look forward to hearing testimony today about the 287(g) program.

I think it would be very difficult for someone to dismiss the fact that that is the case.

I am concerned, however, with a number of the recent findings of the GAO report.

I believe that her testimony today will give this committee the much-needed overview on the direction that the Department of Homeland Security will be taking in this new administration.

I would like to begin by expressing my great excitement in joining the Committee on Homeland Security.

I am hopeful that today this committee will have the opportunity for a frank discussion with Secretary Napolitano.

I am eager to hear how her newly issued directives will pave the way for the Department's future.

We need a 3-year-old to come up with it.

When you use the term 'bailout,' I think that--and I know the media connected with that and ran with it, and so you automatically are going to have a large number of people against a bailout no matter what it is.

She's going to be out campaigning and I think that will say to her supporters, 'It's okay, the water is fine, come on in.'

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