Jon S. Corzine

The reason we have had responses like we have had in the marketplace in the last 2 weeks is that people are hot on rhetoric and low, low, low with regard to results and doing anything that is proper action to deal with the problem.

Providing steady and reliable transportation for workers into and out of New York City is vital to the economic recovery of the region. We are pleased that the Committee has provided $1.8 billion that will be dedicated solely to rebuilding…

I believe the intent of the amendment in this regard is that the Department of Commerce would primarily be involved in developing measurement standards for monitoring of emissions, as well as verification technologies and methods to ensure…

I offer this amendment to protect the role of Congress and elected State and local officials in determining the nature and scope of significant public services. It is one thing for Congress to sacrifice its own prerogatives in the…

The point the Senator from Massachusetts is making with regard to cutting the resources we have available for education and then not funding the mandates really bites in the State of New Jersey. We have a $6 billion budget deficit in the…

If the Senator from Michigan will give me the grace of making sure my arithmetic is right, if you add a 25-percent cut for people who are now working plus 40 percent in administrative costs, that 65 percent out of the total amount of…

We have a lot to do, if at least my analysis and others of the Social Security benefit cuts that are implied by the privatization process are implemented, for women, obviously, but Americans broadly and, quite frankly, a number of children…

If I am not mistaken--maybe the Senator from Michigan can refresh my memory--with Social Security we have something less than 10 percent of Americans now living out of poverty. That is what the whole design of the program was, to provide a…

I know this is an issue that is near and dear to your heart. It is an issue to which it is absolutely essential we pay attention and debate, that we get to a conclusion that supports America's women, making sure they have retirement…

Did I hear the Senator indicate that roughly 51 percent of women would be in poverty if we did not have a Social Security system?

We want to make sure in this compromise amendment that the perfect not be the enemy of the good. This is not everything anyone would want, but we have struck a compromise with voluntary reporting requirements and database buildup and…

There continue to be open questions about whether that meets the criterion.

It is a very heavy burden on the State, and I think it is actually very important for the revitalization of Southern Manhattan.

We would very much love to hear a response about where it stands in the process.

I want to commend you and all of the people at FEMA for the tremendous response that we have seen given to the September 11 attacks.

I consider zeroing-out the Public Housing Drug Elimination Program, a program aimed at improving the safety at public housing developments, particularly troublesome.

The President's housing budget is completely silent on the specific housing needs that face welfare recipients.

Furthermore, the Administration espouses the need to physically improve public housing; its budget actually cuts $441 million from the Public Housing Capital Fund, the program which funds public housing repairs and rehabilitation.

Overall however, this budget falls short of meeting what I believe is HUD's core mission--fulfilling both the short- and long-term housing needs that America's families, our communities and frankly, our economy, rely on.

As I suggested the last time, I would love to take you up to New Jersey and visit some of these public housings and we can go to Cumberland County at the same time.

At some point I would appreciate it if your staff could show me whether the funds that were allocated are still going to fund the same activities with regard to drug elimination activities and security and public housing authorities.

Thank you. And TANF reauthorization and the family self-sufficiency program?

Maybe we should follow up with your staff and see how this works.

I would certainly encourage you to come to Cumberland County with me and you would see where those grants have been very effectively used and brought new jobs.

As you can well imagine as a former business person, though, that if you had bonded, if you had gone to the banks under the projections that you were going to receive grants and it had been indicated that those were going to occur, then…