"We are hopeful that we will meet this statutory deadline, but there is a broader problem that we need to address."
"This subcommittee knows that the unmet needs in our community our communities are immense."
"It is insanity that we would continue to push against what Congress has already been very, very clear about, that we do not support those cuts."
"the absence of this public housing support is not accounted for anywhere else in the budget, that's why I call it a shell game."
"It is important not just to call them out, not just to impose punitive measures, but to work--whatever the problems are, to work them out and to work them out cooperatively."
"Is a travel ban--should we see it just as a punitive measure designed to single out these countries and somehow punish them?"
"I am asking about the expanded travel ban, which now has reached large proportions, affecting, by our calculation, about 300 million people."
"This is totally, totally unprecedented."
"Not only is an 18,000 refugee ceiling shockingly low, but currently, almost halfway through the fiscal year, the United States has admitted only about 5,000 refugees."
"A shared responsibility that we need to figure out how to assert sooner rather than later."
"the considered judgment of the Congress in writing the Military Construction appropriations bill is also about national security."