It was one of the amazing moments in Congress.
If we discontinue the Ex-Im Bank, we are actually withdrawing from what most of the western world is doing.
I actually wish--and this will never happen during my lifetime--that all congressional districts could be designed where there is an urban a...
Housing is always an important discussion for me, for a number of reasons.
I think that is why we don't make the kind of progress we need.
HUD leans urban.
My experience has been that the public sector has been less than enthusiastic about becoming involved in affordable housing.
If we get public-private partnership we don't have to go out and issue bonds or otherwise go into municipal debt.
Every day you wake up you want that kind of partnership because you want to use the expertise of the private sector.
Everybody just works together.
As a former mayor, I know--and every mayor in the country knows--there is hardly any partisanship in municipal governments.