Transcripts For CSPAN2 Senator Brown On Housing And Urban De

Hall speaking last night and still hasnt put any legislative proposals forward. Nothing on immigration concept executive orders. Nothing on infrastructure, even though democrats have followed the four corners, if you will, of his proposal, 1 trillion over ten years put into paper and actually written a real plan which includes Public Transit, which includes highways and bridges and water and sewer and housing and airports and all the things we do and doing it right on infrastructure, on public works. Were still all waiting. The president s made a lot of speeches. Last night he was not as combative as usual. That was welcome. As senator cornyn said, we applauded that. But were still looking for substance. Were looking for one bill. Repeal and replace the Affordable Care act is . What does that mean . He hasnt given us anything specific. Hes been voting been repeal and replace the Affordable Care act for more than a decade. They should listen to the governor from my home state, the state where the presiding officer grew up. They should listen to our republican governor who said, who admonished his colleagues here, dont repeal the Affordable Care act unless youve got a way to take care of 700,000 ohioans who have lost insurance. 700,000. Under medicaid, not to mention 100,000 who will lose their insurance if they are on their Parents Health plan, not to mention 100,000 that are on the exchanges, not to mention 100,000 seniors who are saving 1,100 for prescription drugs a year. Not to mention a million ohio seniors who get free no copay, no deductible osteoporosis and diabetes screening and physicals and all the things that the Affordable Care act does. They have no proposals to replace any of those services. They talk about state lines and Health Savings accounts and they talk about tort reform. Thats like this many people compared to this many people. They know that. Yet i still hear this talk of obstructionism. Give us stuff. Give us legislative proposals. Now, senator, the assistant majority leader started off by talking about, i guess a slow walk of nominees. Im the ranking democrat. Senator crapo, senator of the committee now who was not chairman then and hes not mostly responsible for this, but my committee, on one Banking Committee last year with the democratic president , i dont want to look back and do tit for tat. Its not about that. Its about moving the country forward. But last year what was it . More than two dozen, 25, 27. 25 to 30 nominees came from the president. Some were very significant, exportimport bank. Some were federal reserve. Some were inspectors general that most people dont quite know what they do. But all nominees, more than 25, more than two dozen nominees, one of them was confirmed by the senate last year. One of 28 or so of our committee. He was confirmed on december, on the 24th month of the twoyear term. So dont lecture us about people slowwalking and obstructionism and all that. 25, more than 25 nominees, one of them confirmed. S. E. C. , securities and exchange commission, didnt move. Federal reserve, didnt move. The transportation, Public Transit administrator didnt move. The comport one after another after another. The under secretary for terrorism and financial crimes didnt move even though he was originally a bush nominee and was promoted in the obama years, he wouldnt even come to a vote because of whatever reason that the Banking Committee didnt move him. We dont need that lecture. More importantly, mr. President , on these nominees, we all know the history. When i look at criticism and why arent these nominees all passed, look about six months ago, eight months ago. Every president ial candidate until this last election starts to put together a Transition Team in august. And President Trump kind of candidate trump began to do that but not with much seriousness. Then the person he had leading his Transition Team, he fired in november something, soon after the election. So he had to start again. He had no people kind of ready to go on these nominations. What in fact he was going to do on all these cabinet positions. Then after that, he really didnt vet. He didnt really analyze, dnlt dnlt didnt look at the backgrounds of these nominees. If they didnt do it, usually the president s people look at these nominees and analyze and see how corrupt they are, if they have conflicts of interest, how qualified they are. They didnt that in this administration because apparently they didnt have time. They nominate these people and weve never seen so many conflicts of interest, this kind of wealth, this many billionaires appointed to the cabinet. Just out of the finance committee, the secretary of health and human services, he bought and sold Health Care Stocks of companies he was working with on the floor of the house of representatives. He was working object bills and amendments and yet he bought and sold hundreds of thousands of dollars of Health Care Stocks. He didnt tell the committee the full story. The secretary of treasury, he had 100 Million Investment he forgot to report. Maybe, maybe somebody out there would forget if they had a 100 Million Investment, they might forget they had it, but most americans kind of wouldnt forget he had 100 million. He lied to the committee. He lied to the committee about robe robosignings. This is directly related to this nomination. Hundreds of ohioans, at least, maybe thousands lost their homes including in the presiding officers home city where he grew up lost their homes because of these robosignings. Thats why this has been slowed down is these nominees, many are unqualified for the jobs. Many of them have conflicts of interest. Many of them have very complex Financial Holdings and portfolios that just take a long time to sort through. Thats the reason for the delay. And to accuse of anything else is just playing politics. Now as i said, im here today to argue for the nomination, for the confirmation of dr. Carson. I voted for a number of these nominees when i think they can offer something to our country. I voted against some of the most corrupt and some of the most out of step and farright radical nominees. And that list is unfortunately much longer for this president than any president in american history. Dr. Carson had a career as a pediatric neurosurgeon. We know that about him. Thats good. His remarkable life store is well known to millions of americans and that is good. But hes not the nominee i would have chosen to lead h. U. D. In fact hes not the nominee that any president in my lifetime would have chosen to lead h. U. D. H hes made troubling statements on Public Policy issues. My colleagues and i asked dr. Carson direct questions about his views now that he is the nominee for secretary of h. U. D. Ill give dr. Carson the benefit of the doubt. Thats why i am voting for him, because he made commitments to me in person sitting in my office across the table, and he made commitments in the banking, housing and urban Affairs Committee in his testimony as written responses. 2450es these clu the promises to address lead hazards. He pledged to uphold under oath he pledged to uphold the Fair Housing Act and the housing rights of lgbtq individuals. That wasnt what his past has been. He said comments that i find offensive or worse about gay people in this country, but he made the commitment under oath to our committee that he would fight any discrimination against people because of their sexual orientation. He has pledged to advocate for rental assistance and investment in homelessness. Hes pledged to push to include housing in the president s infrastructure plan. Those are commitments he made. Those are commitments he made under oath. Those are commitments that i will hold him to in spite of perhaps his prior philosophy of government and in spite of perhaps some of his comments that he might have made in the past. My job is to hold him accountable for this. The job of everybody in this senate, of both parties is to hold him accountable. Mr. President , i want to ask unanimous consent to have printed in the record his written responses to questions i asked to clarify and supplement his testimony before the Banking Committee on january 12. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Brown i also ask unanimous consent that my entire statement will be in the record. Im going to truncate it if thats okay. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Brown thank you. As the Ranking Member of banking, and i would emphasize the committee, while the last two years it might have only been called banking, and maybe it could have just been called wall street for the way that it was run but the full Committee Name is banking, housing and urban affairs. It is responsible for housing policy. I see how important this department is for people in ohio and across our country. H. U. D. s charged with enforcing fair housing laws. Its been an essential partner in National Efforts to prevent and end homelessness for veterans, something senator crapo talked about, for the chronically homeless and youth and families. And the departments primary rental assistance programs help four and a half million lowincome families, the elderly and people with disabilities find a place to call home, something that should be a right in this country. Cities and towns in their efforts to revitalize neighborhoods and invest in communities, promotes leadsafe housing for children. There is a great challenge in states like mine where deteriorating lead paint in old homes threaten so many children. In my hometown of cleveland and where i grew up in mansfield, in appalachia, in city after city, in community after community, my state, there are lots and lots of older homes. In the city of cleveland well over half the homes are at least 60 years old. I asked somebody from the Cleveland Health department what percentage of those homes have toxic levels of lead, and he said 99. Understand that old homes in this country, homes that are 60, 70, 80 years old and many homes fall in that category have toxic levels of lead. My support for dr. Carson centers around the fact that he may not know much about housing policy yet im hopeful in the tours he takes, including to my state and i assume to the chairmans state of idaho, in addition, assume hell learn more about housing. But one thing he does know as a brain surgeon is he knows what lead does in the development of children. So in small children the Cleveland Plain Dealer reported 70 tracts in Cuyahoga County whereas many as one in three children are poisoned because of the age of housing in the housing stock. One in three children has her or his physical and emotional and meantal meantal development sometimes arrested or slowed because of lead poisoning. Through the federal housing administration, h. U. D. Works with lenders to help credit worthy borrowers access a stable mortgage credit to purchase a home. They played a countercyclical role following the financial crisis when the private sector largely withdrew from the field. It since went into its typical share of the Housing Market still essential for home buyers including many firsttime and minority home buyers. H. U. D. s role has only become more important as housing and Community Development challenges have grown. The need for Affordable Housing has grown dramatically since the great recession. Its demand for units have increased and wages stagnated. The margin is not producing significant housing for families and those on fixed income. Studies demonstrated that people who purchase essential work, people working fulltime, people working just as hard as the staff in front of me, people working just as hard as people that have titles like i do, many of them simply cant afford the rent in the communities they serve. Half of all renters in this country, half of the people that rent pay more than 30 of their income for housing. A quarter of all renters, think about this, 25 of all renters, 11 Million People in this country pay more than half their incomes for rent. So if youre paying 51 , 52 , 55 of your income in rent, one bad thing happens, a sick child, a few days your plant lays off for two weeks, any number of things, your roof leaks, any number of things can happen. When youre living on the edge when half your income is for housing, what happens . You lose your home, you get evicted. These burdens are more severe at the bottom of the income spectrum, of course, among the extremely low income renter. Households, at or below 30 of median income. 75 may more than half their income in rent. The National Housing coalition identified a shortage of seven million affordable and available rental units for the nations extremely low income renter households. Were reaching only one out of four of those eligible families. Many end up on yearslong waiting lists for lack of funding. So government extends a hand to some of these families but not nearly enough, and that needs to change. Despite the growing need for Affordable Housing, we risk loosing the Affordable Housing resources we have due to physical deterioration or the end of longterm affordability contracts with property owners. Families burdened by how high housing costs and fewer Resources Available to meet other needs like transportation to work and food and medicine. They even face eviction and homelessness. 500,000 people were homeless on any given night in january, 2016. 550,000, actually people were homeless on any one of on any night in january, 2016. Department of education data, cl include families doubled up for economic reasons, indicate that 1. 4 Million School children and their families were homeless at some point during the 20132014 school year. So think about that. These kids, some of them were exposed to lead, have some learning disabilities. Others dont get enough to eat, in spite of Family School breakfast and Lunch Program because they dont eat so well on weekends and at nights and summer vacations or whenever. In addition, a number of them, 1. 4 million are homeless. Desmond there is a Matthew Desmond wrote a book called evicted. Hes a gentleman i have gotten to know a little bit. When he signed his book to me its a book he lived in milwaukee, in a white neighborhood, a poor white neighborhood and a poor black neighborhood and wrote about people he got to meet and got to know. He spent enough time there he got to know people. When he signed his book, he wrote home equals life. So if you dont have a decent place to live and none of news this chamber have that challenge, that i would imagine, when you dont have a place to call home, your life can be upsidedown, and all the challenges, all the things that can happen. When you get evicted, your kids have to move to a new school district, you dont know where youre going to end up, you lose the few possessions you have, all the things that can happen when youre evicted. This book is recommended reading for anybody that works on housing issues, Matthew Desmond, a book called evicted. One last point, mr. President. I look forward to working with colleagues and the administration. The president s proposed 1 trillion investment in infrastructure, including housing, to jumpstart the conversation about the president s proposed infrastructure package, my colleagues and i announced a blueprint to rebuild americas infrastructure. I find it interesting again that the system the majority leader talked about, democrats and transgents and democrats obstruction when the president has put nothing out there on infrastructure, nothing out there on housing, nothing out there about Health Care Repeal and replacement, none of those kinds of legislation. We dont even know what hes talking about other than saying democrats actively put our 1 trillion tenyear plan, hoping the president s 1 trillion tenyear plan could match up and we can work together. This blueprint talks about ways we invest in american infrastructure, to improve the nations transportation and water and housing and community infrastructure, creating thousands of goodpaying union jobs in construction and manufacturing jobs with strong buyamerican provisions. Even though the president in his prior life as a businessman wore suits made sold suits and sold table ware and sold glassware made overseas and even though this suit i wear is made by Union Workers ten miles from my house, the president , now that hes president , the issue is not his own private business or his familys own private business where they outsource jobs to do production so they make more money. I dont like that, but thats no longer our business. What is our business is the president steps forward and buy american. Buy america means if there is steel in an infrastructure project, it should be made by steelworkers in youngstown or lorain, ohio, or somewhere in ohio. If there is iron in these projects, if there is aluminum in these projects, if there is concrete, if there is any kind of product, it should be made bg for it, it should be made by american workers. Our blueprint is central to h. U. D. s mission. It includes 100 billion to rebuild main street and communities. It includes ideas to address Affordable Housing challenges to eliminate Blighted Properties that bring down local Public Transit<\/a>, which includes highways and bridges and water and sewer and housing and airports and all the things we do and doing it right on infrastructure, on public works. Were still all waiting. The president s made a lot of speeches. Last night he was not as combative as usual. That was welcome. As senator cornyn said, we applauded that. But were still looking for substance. Were looking for one bill. Repeal and replace the Affordable Care<\/a> act is . What does that mean . He hasnt given us anything specific. Hes been voting been repeal and replace the Affordable Care<\/a> act for more than a decade. They should listen to the governor from my home state, the state where the presiding officer grew up. They should listen to our republican governor who said, who admonished his colleagues here, dont repeal the Affordable Care<\/a> act unless youve got a way to take care of 700,000 ohioans who have lost insurance. 700,000. Under medicaid, not to mention 100,000 who will lose their insurance if they are on their Parents Health<\/a> plan, not to mention 100,000 that are on the exchanges, not to mention 100,000 seniors who are saving 1,100 for prescription drugs a year. Not to mention a million ohio seniors who get free no copay, no deductible osteoporosis and diabetes screening and physicals and all the things that the Affordable Care<\/a> act does. They have no proposals to replace any of those services. They talk about state lines and Health Savings<\/a> accounts and they talk about tort reform. Thats like this many people compared to this many people. They know that. Yet i still hear this talk of obstructionism. Give us stuff. Give us legislative proposals. Now, senator, the assistant majority leader started off by talking about, i guess a slow walk of nominees. Im the ranking democrat. Senator crapo, senator of the committee now who was not chairman then and hes not mostly responsible for this, but my committee, on one Banking Committee<\/a> last year with the democratic president , i dont want to look back and do tit for tat. Its not about that. Its about moving the country forward. But last year what was it . More than two dozen, 25, 27. 25 to 30 nominees came from the president. Some were very significant, exportimport bank. Some were federal reserve. Some were inspectors general that most people dont quite know what they do. But all nominees, more than 25, more than two dozen nominees, one of them was confirmed by the senate last year. One of 28 or so of our committee. He was confirmed on december, on the 24th month of the twoyear term. So dont lecture us about people slowwalking and obstructionism and all that. 25, more than 25 nominees, one of them confirmed. S. E. C. , securities and exchange commission, didnt move. Federal reserve, didnt move. The transportation, Public Transit<\/a> administrator didnt move. The comport one after another after another. The under secretary for terrorism and financial crimes didnt move even though he was originally a bush nominee and was promoted in the obama years, he wouldnt even come to a vote because of whatever reason that the Banking Committee<\/a> didnt move him. We dont need that lecture. More importantly, mr. President , on these nominees, we all know the history. When i look at criticism and why arent these nominees all passed, look about six months ago, eight months ago. Every president ial candidate until this last election starts to put together a Transition Team<\/a> in august. And President Trump<\/a> kind of candidate trump began to do that but not with much seriousness. Then the person he had leading his Transition Team<\/a>, he fired in november something, soon after the election. So he had to start again. He had no people kind of ready to go on these nominations. What in fact he was going to do on all these cabinet positions. Then after that, he really didnt vet. He didnt really analyze, dnlt dnlt didnt look at the backgrounds of these nominees. If they didnt do it, usually the president s people look at these nominees and analyze and see how corrupt they are, if they have conflicts of interest, how qualified they are. They didnt that in this administration because apparently they didnt have time. They nominate these people and weve never seen so many conflicts of interest, this kind of wealth, this many billionaires appointed to the cabinet. Just out of the finance committee, the secretary of health and human services, he bought and sold Health Care Stocks<\/a> of companies he was working with on the floor of the house of representatives. He was working object bills and amendments and yet he bought and sold hundreds of thousands of dollars of Health Care Stocks<\/a>. He didnt tell the committee the full story. The secretary of treasury, he had 100 Million Investment<\/a> he forgot to report. Maybe, maybe somebody out there would forget if they had a 100 Million Investment<\/a>, they might forget they had it, but most americans kind of wouldnt forget he had 100 million. He lied to the committee. He lied to the committee about robe robosignings. This is directly related to this nomination. Hundreds of ohioans, at least, maybe thousands lost their homes including in the presiding officers home city where he grew up lost their homes because of these robosignings. Thats why this has been slowed down is these nominees, many are unqualified for the jobs. Many of them have conflicts of interest. Many of them have very complex Financial Holdings<\/a> and portfolios that just take a long time to sort through. Thats the reason for the delay. And to accuse of anything else is just playing politics. Now as i said, im here today to argue for the nomination, for the confirmation of dr. Carson. I voted for a number of these nominees when i think they can offer something to our country. I voted against some of the most corrupt and some of the most out of step and farright radical nominees. And that list is unfortunately much longer for this president than any president in american history. Dr. Carson had a career as a pediatric neurosurgeon. We know that about him. Thats good. His remarkable life store is well known to millions of americans and that is good. But hes not the nominee i would have chosen to lead h. U. D. In fact hes not the nominee that any president in my lifetime would have chosen to lead h. U. D. H hes made troubling statements on Public Policy<\/a> issues. My colleagues and i asked dr. Carson direct questions about his views now that he is the nominee for secretary of h. U. D. Ill give dr. Carson the benefit of the doubt. Thats why i am voting for him, because he made commitments to me in person sitting in my office across the table, and he made commitments in the banking, housing and urban Affairs Committee<\/a> in his testimony as written responses. 2450es these clu the promises to address lead hazards. He pledged to uphold under oath he pledged to uphold the Fair Housing Act<\/a> and the housing rights of lgbtq individuals. That wasnt what his past has been. He said comments that i find offensive or worse about gay people in this country, but he made the commitment under oath to our committee that he would fight any discrimination against people because of their sexual orientation. He has pledged to advocate for rental assistance and investment in homelessness. Hes pledged to push to include housing in the president s infrastructure plan. Those are commitments he made. Those are commitments he made under oath. Those are commitments that i will hold him to in spite of perhaps his prior philosophy of government and in spite of perhaps some of his comments that he might have made in the past. My job is to hold him accountable for this. The job of everybody in this senate, of both parties is to hold him accountable. Mr. President , i want to ask unanimous consent to have printed in the record his written responses to questions i asked to clarify and supplement his testimony before the Banking Committee<\/a> on january 12. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Brown i also ask unanimous consent that my entire statement will be in the record. Im going to truncate it if thats okay. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Brown thank you. As the Ranking Member<\/a> of banking, and i would emphasize the committee, while the last two years it might have only been called banking, and maybe it could have just been called wall street for the way that it was run but the full Committee Name<\/a> is banking, housing and urban affairs. It is responsible for housing policy. I see how important this department is for people in ohio and across our country. H. U. D. s charged with enforcing fair housing laws. Its been an essential partner in National Efforts<\/a> to prevent and end homelessness for veterans, something senator crapo talked about, for the chronically homeless and youth and families. And the departments primary rental assistance programs help four and a half million lowincome families, the elderly and people with disabilities find a place to call home, something that should be a right in this country. Cities and towns in their efforts to revitalize neighborhoods and invest in communities, promotes leadsafe housing for children. There is a great challenge in states like mine where deteriorating lead paint in old homes threaten so many children. In my hometown of cleveland and where i grew up in mansfield, in appalachia, in city after city, in community after community, my state, there are lots and lots of older homes. In the city of cleveland well over half the homes are at least 60 years old. I asked somebody from the Cleveland Health<\/a> department what percentage of those homes have toxic levels of lead, and he said 99. Understand that old homes in this country, homes that are 60, 70, 80 years old and many homes fall in that category have toxic levels of lead. My support for dr. Carson centers around the fact that he may not know much about housing policy yet im hopeful in the tours he takes, including to my state and i assume to the chairmans state of idaho, in addition, assume hell learn more about housing. But one thing he does know as a brain surgeon is he knows what lead does in the development of children. So in small children the Cleveland Plain Dealer<\/a> reported 70 tracts in Cuyahoga County<\/a> whereas many as one in three children are poisoned because of the age of housing in the housing stock. One in three children has her or his physical and emotional and meantal meantal development sometimes arrested or slowed because of lead poisoning. Through the federal housing administration, h. U. D. Works with lenders to help credit worthy borrowers access a stable mortgage credit to purchase a home. They played a countercyclical role following the financial crisis when the private sector largely withdrew from the field. It since went into its typical share of the Housing Market<\/a> still essential for home buyers including many firsttime and minority home buyers. H. U. D. s role has only become more important as housing and Community Development<\/a> challenges have grown. The need for Affordable Housing<\/a> has grown dramatically since the great recession. Its demand for units have increased and wages stagnated. The margin is not producing significant housing for families and those on fixed income. Studies demonstrated that people who purchase essential work, people working fulltime, people working just as hard as the staff in front of me, people working just as hard as people that have titles like i do, many of them simply cant afford the rent in the communities they serve. Half of all renters in this country, half of the people that rent pay more than 30 of their income for housing. A quarter of all renters, think about this, 25 of all renters, 11 Million People<\/a> in this country pay more than half their incomes for rent. So if youre paying 51 , 52 , 55 of your income in rent, one bad thing happens, a sick child, a few days your plant lays off for two weeks, any number of things, your roof leaks, any number of things can happen. When youre living on the edge when half your income is for housing, what happens . You lose your home, you get evicted. These burdens are more severe at the bottom of the income spectrum, of course, among the extremely low income renter. Households, at or below 30 of median income. 75 may more than half their income in rent. The National Housing<\/a> coalition identified a shortage of seven million affordable and available rental units for the nations extremely low income renter households. Were reaching only one out of four of those eligible families. Many end up on yearslong waiting lists for lack of funding. So government extends a hand to some of these families but not nearly enough, and that needs to change. Despite the growing need for Affordable Housing<\/a>, we risk loosing the Affordable Housing<\/a> resources we have due to physical deterioration or the end of longterm affordability contracts with property owners. Families burdened by how high housing costs and fewer Resources Available<\/a> to meet other needs like transportation to work and food and medicine. They even face eviction and homelessness. 500,000 people were homeless on any given night in january, 2016. 550,000, actually people were homeless on any one of on any night in january, 2016. Department of education data, cl include families doubled up for economic reasons, indicate that 1. 4 Million School<\/a> children and their families were homeless at some point during the 20132014 school year. So think about that. These kids, some of them were exposed to lead, have some learning disabilities. Others dont get enough to eat, in spite of Family School<\/a> breakfast and Lunch Program<\/a> because they dont eat so well on weekends and at nights and summer vacations or whenever. In addition, a number of them, 1. 4 million are homeless. Desmond there is a Matthew Desmond<\/a> wrote a book called evicted. Hes a gentleman i have gotten to know a little bit. When he signed his book to me its a book he lived in milwaukee, in a white neighborhood, a poor white neighborhood and a poor black neighborhood and wrote about people he got to meet and got to know. He spent enough time there he got to know people. When he signed his book, he wrote home equals life. So if you dont have a decent place to live and none of news this chamber have that challenge, that i would imagine, when you dont have a place to call home, your life can be upsidedown, and all the challenges, all the things that can happen. When you get evicted, your kids have to move to a new school district, you dont know where youre going to end up, you lose the few possessions you have, all the things that can happen when youre evicted. This book is recommended reading for anybody that works on housing issues, Matthew Desmond<\/a>, a book called evicted. One last point, mr. President. I look forward to working with colleagues and the administration. The president s proposed 1 trillion investment in infrastructure, including housing, to jumpstart the conversation about the president s proposed infrastructure package, my colleagues and i announced a blueprint to rebuild americas infrastructure. I find it interesting again that the system the majority leader talked about, democrats and transgents and democrats obstruction when the president has put nothing out there on infrastructure, nothing out there on housing, nothing out there about Health Care Repeal<\/a> and replacement, none of those kinds of legislation. We dont even know what hes talking about other than saying democrats actively put our 1 trillion tenyear plan, hoping the president s 1 trillion tenyear plan could match up and we can work together. This blueprint talks about ways we invest in american infrastructure, to improve the nations transportation and water and housing and community infrastructure, creating thousands of goodpaying union jobs in construction and manufacturing jobs with strong buyamerican provisions. Even though the president in his prior life as a businessman wore suits made sold suits and sold table ware and sold glassware made overseas and even though this suit i wear is made by Union Workers<\/a> ten miles from my house, the president , now that hes president , the issue is not his own private business or his familys own private business where they outsource jobs to do production so they make more money. I dont like that, but thats no longer our business. What is our business is the president steps forward and buy american. Buy america means if there is steel in an infrastructure project, it should be made by steelworkers in youngstown or lorain, ohio, or somewhere in ohio. If there is iron in these projects, if there is aluminum in these projects, if there is concrete, if there is any kind of product, it should be made bg for it, it should be made by american workers. Our blueprint is central to h. U. D. s mission. It includes 100 billion to rebuild main street and communities. It includes ideas to address Affordable Housing<\/a> challenges to eliminate Blighted Properties<\/a> that bring down local Property Values<\/a> and remediate lead hazards that threaten children. Were ready to work on real infrastructure. As i said, im going to vote for ben carson for secretary of h. U. D. It was he is not an inspiring choice, but hes someone who is an accomplished man. I count on him to help us address this terrible lead problem. I count on him to stand with us as he pledged to address the scourge of lead. I count on him to uphold the Fair Housing Act<\/a> and the housing rights of lgbtq individuals. I count on him to advocate for rental assistance and investment in homelessness. I count on him to include housing in the p president i count on this nomineed him to say in Public Meetings<\/a> we will hold accountable. Good morning. 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