It has been a long time since the storms broke, particularly for those people who have been put out of their homes literally.

Those cuts don't appear to be arbitrary. They pose a real threat to already vulnerable populations.

If you cut expenditures and revenue simultaneously, you might not solve the problem.

This includes the elimination of critical infrastructure programs like Choice Neighborhoods, HOME, and the Community Development Block Grant.

the budget also proposes to eliminate public housing capital grants and to starve public housing agencies' operating budgets.

We've got so many of those cases out there, and we have to do a lot more.

I urge you with all deliberate speed to get those allocations published.

The other point is that these disasters are occurring much more frequently.

Will you commit to ceasing all efforts by the EPA to block the ATSDR assessment from becoming public and instead support its immediate release?

We have a system that doesn't work, but we have a contract and we've got to buy the thing anyway.

As a result of the bipartisan budget agreement that President Trump signed, we set aside sequester spending levels and freed up significant amounts of new defense and non-defense discretionary dollars.

It's imperative, in my judgment, that Congress retain annual oversight of the FAA in order to maintain the safety and efficiency of our Nation's airspace, particularly in rural communities that rely on general aviation.

Thank you, Chairman Collins. Secretary Chao, thank you very much for being here, and we look forward to your testimony today.

Thank you very much, Madam Chairman, and thank you again, Madam Secretary, for your work at the department.

Cyber is the number one topic in every conversation I have with anyone in the building.

Can we expect, that all of the funds that we've appropriated, will be expeditiously deployed?

I would guess that this is not the first time that in transportation projects multiple sources, including multiple Federal sources, have been used.

The program has absolutely critical strong bipartisan support.

We owe a great deal to our veterans, and it is, I think, discouraging to all of us when we see them without adequate housing, and too many of them are in that situation.

I think in Rhode Island a few years ago, thought we were at that moment, and in fact, ironically and unfortunately, our homelessness population of veterans is going up.

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