Bill Lee: “I mentioned earlier when the gentlewoman from Texas indicated that the Secretary had visited her district and visited an…”

“I mentioned earlier when the gentlewoman from Texas indicated that the Secretary had visited her district and visited an individual who was living in a dilapidated house, and I said I hoped he had become a little more sensitive to what we were talking about because in the subcommittee hearing, he talked about poverty in terms of it being a state of mind, not a state of condition, not a function of circumstances or unemployment or living in substandard housing in communities which had very little resources. I am not sure if he became more sensitized about the issues of poverty. I am shocked that he continued with that argument on television.”