If you are dealing with the same population without a roof over their head--or as my colleague, Senator Scott, was talking about, apprenticeship--well I guarantee you, you cannot deliver job training to a tent.

America's affordable rental housing crisis is growing.

I think that is really what Senator Cantwell and Chairman Hatch are trying to do, to wring every bit of value out of this low-income credit.

So the lack of affordable housing shows up in the budgets outside of the housing budgets.

I am always struck by how people in politics just preach morning, noon, and night about family values.

Thank you for your steadfast support for the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit and tax-exempt private activity housing bonds.

Dr. O'Regan, is this the primary tool that we have for fixing this crisis?

Because they think it helps drive down costs of health insurance?

We also thank Finance Committee Senators Wyden, Bennet, Heller, Isakson and Portman for their cosponsorship.

This crucial piece of legislation would increase Housing Credit authority, facilitate Housing Credit development in challenging markets.

I so appreciate everything our witnesses have said. I actually disagree with very little that has been discussed so far.

I saw the remarks of the President of the United States in Youngstown, OH, and it has brought me to the floor this morning because the focus of some of his speech was on the economy and job creation. Well, I can tell the President right…

Thank you, Madam President. I come to the floor--I know my colleague from Indiana, Senator Donnelly, is going to be down here to talk a little bit about his motion, and I want to support him in that, along with the Senator from…

we think it's a very valuable tool, and anybody who is going to be helping us with manufacturing and trade, that we have an Export-Import Bank that works, and right now we don't, and we're losing jobs and losing economic opportunity.

I thank the Senator from Pennsylvania for being here. We have been out here many a night, talking about the importance of Medicaid. I so appreciate his leadership in the Senate on this very important issue. He has been a champion of the…

the cost of all of this debris does affect our fishing community, our coastal community.

I thank the Chair. Madam President, I rise today to speak about the Bernhardt nomination to be Deputy Secretary of the Interior. The Deputy Secretary plays an important role in forming and carrying out the administration's policy on a…

What is the pending business? The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Bernhardt nomination is pending.

We definitely want to make sure that we get a fair deal for the taxpayer and that royalties obviously are reviewed and updated.

Do you understand the moral obligation here and the size and scope of the largest nuclear waste cleanup site in the entire world and the billions of dollars we spend annually on trying to achieve this goal?

We need to make sure that those individuals who have the experience, who are involved in science, are going to continue to fulfill those responsibilities.

I intend to ask the Inspector General to look into it.

I'm just thinking it's time to take all of this serious, as so many devices are the most vulnerable entry point.

the FCC should be doing more to look at the communication risks

I applaud the FCC's ongoing efforts in the incentive auction.