Instead of taking responsibility, Mr. Secretary, you seem to want to blame others.

How can you say that withdrawing--cutting the budget 14 percent is going to make this a better situation?

I am not sure I made the right decision.

I wish you had said that several months ago when this Congress passed a tax cut that went to you and the President's Cabinet and people in the top 1 percent that are getting millions of dollars in a tax cut.

Homelessness increased last year in the eighth year of an economic expansion.

Despite the importance of affordable housing, it is increasingly out of reach.

I appreciate the efforts on eliminating veterans homelessness that began several years ago that, as you said, has made progress.

Many in the President's Cabinet, because the 1 percent--and lots of them are well represented in the Cabinet--1 percent did really, really well under this tax bill.

Others would call it cruel.

You have acknowledged that HUD-VASH works better because we actually fund it.

It is disturbing, extremely disturbing to read about one controversy after another at your Department--ethics lawyers ignored, procurement guidelines scoffed at, whistleblowers facing retaliation, antidiscrimination efforts downgraded, key…

I know that there is a better budget for veterans than there is housing, but it certainly washes on you.

None of them--almost none of them likes the idea of this move toward privatization.

I think I speak for many on this Committee to hope that a year from now we see Secretary Shulkin sitting in that chair.

I am hopeful you will use your cabinet meetings and discussions with Secretary Carson to push for more vouchers.

I thank Senator Portman and Senator Blumenthal for their work on this. Senator Portman and I have spent untold hours, and he has been a leader on this. I thank him for his leadership, in Toledo and Cincinnati, but especially in Toledo…

I particularly appreciate, in light of my comments in a moment, Senator Klobuchar's service. She has been a pioneer as the first woman Senator from Minnesota. And I believe the Presiding Officer, Senator Fischer, is the first female…

So the question is, Why do we ignore these pleas? Let's recap the problems with this legislation. First, the bill puts American taxpayers at risk of another bank bailout. It weakens stress tests for all large banks. In spite of what my…

During the conference committee, televised live on C-SPAN for 48 hours, 17 Senate Republican amendments were accepted and 22 amendments from Senate Democrats. Contrast that with today: No subsequent amendments were adopted. I credit…

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I ask unanimous consent for an additional 5 minutes. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection? Without objection, it is so ordered.

People who cleaned up the last crisis are warning us not to pass this bill. Experts from both parties are warning us, the authors of Wall Street reform. Barney Frank said he would vote no if he were in the Senate. Chris Dodd, in an op-ed…

I first wish to thank Senator Whitehouse, one of my best friends in the Senate. We came to the Senate on the same day. He will go down in history as the best advocate in this body or perhaps the greatest moralist of our time combatting…

I suggest the absence of a quorum. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Young). The clerk will call the roll. The legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll.

I would like my colleagues to take a trip down memory lane. Go back a decade or two to 2006, 2007, 2008, and look at the decade before that. My State of Ohio, for 14 years in a row-- from the late 1990s through the year 2010--experienced…