"Urban areas present unique challenges for our first response in a security scenario."
"Thankfully, the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act that passed the last Congress injected as much as $550 billion into reviving our Nation's transportation system."
"the extent that your legislation and your advocacy can pair and couple urban transportation hubs and rural transportation hubs with housing development will go a long way to producing additional units..."
"One key problem, seems to me that all too often, first-time homebuyers are competing with institutional investors who can afford to purchase the home with cash."
"The fact is that there are not just enough rental homes being built, and part of that is because Federal lending programs, through HUD and the Federal Housing Administration, have not kept pace with t..."
"I put out a paper on migration called the Menendez Plan. It recognizes that there are 20 million people in the Western Hemisphere--20 million--who are displaced refugees or seeking asylum in other cou..."
"Well, we will either help them there or they will be knocking on the door here."
"Unless we deal with that reality, then the challenges that we have at the southern border will be minor today compared to 20 million people who, if they cannot be assimilated in these countries, will ..."
"For over 6 months, Haiti has had zero democratically elected officials."
"It is imperative we make sure Haiti is equipped to hold elections when the time comes."
"I think as much as anything else in today's hearing, and I know it is an unfair question in many cases, but asking what is the Biden administration's plan or view of what the solution here is."