"I secured about $28 million in the Defense Appropriations Bills for a submarine, industrial-based support of workers, and of training, and education initiatives."
"they pointed out that one of the problems is literacy; that they have a significant number of adults who walk in and they want jobs, they want to work, but they have very poor literacy, and very poor ..."
"We need housing to send people to."
"I was at a celebration earlier of 14 separate units in Providence, Rhode Island funded from the Affordable Housing Trust Fund."
"So if we want to make housing affordable, I think we ought to be talking about how Government subsidies foster higher housing prices."
"Congress recently has doubled down on subsidizing housing and that does not appear to be working so far."
"I think there is an opportunity and we should be working on a bipartisan solution to comprehensive reform of housing finance."
"It is not only providing housing, it is stabilizing the neighborhood."
"Everywhere I go in Rhode Island, everywhere we go around the country, affordable housing, affordable housing is the cry."
"It is a holistic problem. It is not just one thing. And you need interagency cooperation."
"I think today we are going to be discussing a number of disconnected bills, most of which increase Government spending and interference in housing markets."