"In my opinion, infrastructure should include our public housing network, and we should provide adequate funding for families to have a safe and healthy environment."
"I think that is what the American people want to know."
"We should own up to our responsibility to provide a safe, healthy, and sustainable life setting in these units."
"The cuts that are being proposed also include cuts in Section 8 Housing Vouchers for people like homeless veterans."
"Public housing operations and capital have been underfunded for many, many years, putting long-term viability of the units at risk."
"Your budget is inadequate at best and unconscionable at worst."
"It is my hope that Congress will enact regular full-year fiscal year 2018 appropriations for HUD programs prior to the end of fiscal year 2017."
"I believe very strongly that this crisis is as serious as the Cuban Missile Crisis."
"We need those answers. And we need to bring a group of witnesses here."
"We need to know who enabled the Russians to hijack our democratic process."
"I echo my Democratic colleagues because I don't think that we can overstate this, that we need a 9/11-style commission."