I would love to tell you that I was enormously successful, but I failed. I failed to make those programs accessible.

Our most acute and most desperate need for housing is in Indian Country.

We must address the unique challenges faced by Native American housing.

What do we do, working within existing programs, and what do we do looking at financing?

If we keep doing what we have always done... we will get the same result.

We failed. You cannot look at the statistics of housing in Indian Country... and not get an acute sense of failure.

I am thrilled that you are going to be at OMB. I am thrilled that you are willing to step up and take on this challenge.

I want to hear if you are willing to make a commitment to really look at those things that have been hanging fire for a long time.

we are mortgaging our children's future. And if we do not get a handle on it, we will not be successful into the future.

I also want to piggyback a little bit on the discussion that Senator Johnson just had about regulatory reform.

our expectation is that you are going to be sitting at the table, a full partner with the President

I want to know what you are going to do to bypass what we call 'the beltway mentality' and to actually visit with North Dakota and American businesses.