02/28/2012
https://www.congress.gov...
"The President's budget proposes to slash Federal investments in affordable housing programs administered by HUD by $7.4 billion."
"But under this budget, all these dollars just disappear. And you have to ask yourself where do our fellow Americans go who relied on this?"
"Frankly, Mr. Secretary, this budget is a travesty. I have been here with Republican and Democratic Administrations. I have never seen anything like this."
"We wanted to strengthen it. We wanted to expand it. We wanted to reauthorize it."