01/02/2018
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"I have personally written four letters to Senate appropriators signed by dozens of my colleagues expressing my priorities for programs at HUD that deserve funding."
"Given all of the challenges and the affordability of housing right now, is this not exactly the wrong time to enact the severe cuts to HUD's budget that the House, I see, is proposing?"
"It also includes Sustainable Communities grants, a letter I led with Senator Landrieu that got a quarter of all Senators on it, which urges funding for locally and regionally driven planning, which is..."
"Well, that is not acceptable. It is unacceptable at any given time. It is certainly unacceptable in these times."