This President is a fighter and he has got amazing will and he has risen above what is the typical political culture, and I just plead with him through you to make this a priority.

I want reform of the TAP program to be of the first and foremost priority for our Committee.

Is it housing or is it the job that allows them to sustain self-sufficiency so that they can have that independence and pay the rent and feel the dignity of all that is involved in that?

Sustainability as in their ability to sustain their independence and--because of employment?

So, just back to my original question, I think you are saying that the underlying issue with homelessness, or at least a major underlying issue is employment, underemployment.

I associate myself with much of what you said and what my colleagues on both sides of the aisle have said.

We just somehow when you walk through these doors and when you are thinking about the customer, which is the veteran, you just put everything aside.

How little we invest to transition them so that quite frankly we don't need much of your services.

Mr. Speaker, I have the privilege of representing one of the most courageous little girls in all the world, Sophia Campa- Peters. She may be a little girl, little in stature, but there is nothing small about Sophia's heart and her courage…

Mr. Speaker, on Friday thousands of people from all across America will come to Washington to march in support of the dignity and equal protection of every God-given human life in this great land. It is in that spirit that I rise to join…

I have a hard time believing that they are being necessarily taken advantage of.