Let me acknowledge--I think it is Sheriff Jenkins--just to thank him for his work.

This is an important issue and I wanted to take a moment to provide you and the committee with my perspective.

My position is that we should have comprehensive immigration reform.

I want to thank you for holding this hearing, and I am conflicted because I am in between Homeland Security, but this is very important to me.

I would like to invite you to the region. I welcome what you are doing in the Gulf region with the Secretary of HUD.

I think it is enormously important for this very important department to have a focused jurisdiction.

The housing issue is really at a crisis. We have got the manufactured housing on the ground all ready to go and can't move and people don't have housing.

Mr. Chairman, thank you for convening today's very important hearing on copyright licensing in a digital age.

the house is on fire and this bill is a hose that is probably long overdue, but we have got to get the water where it needs to be.

we are at a point where the Federal Government has to be the one that either frames or infuses capital into the market.

the Federal Government is the last resort, the last big spender, and of course a lot of people run out of the room when they hear that.