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Speaker Urges Committee to Advance Scott Turner Nomination to Senate Floor
Summary
An unidentified speaker urged a committee to advance Scott Turner’s nomination to lead the Department of Housing and Urban Development, praising his background on opportunity zones and calling for policies to increase housing supply amid cited rises in homelessness, rents and home prices.
An unidentified speaker urged members of a committee to advance Scott Turner’s nomination to the Senate floor, saying Turner has the “skill set necessary to enact change” and pledging a “blue collar comeback.” The remarks, delivered in a prepared statement, framed Turner as a solution to the nation’s housing challenges and called for bipartisan cooperation.
The speaker said Scott Turner would lead a push to increase housing supply across forms — “single family homes, apartments, condos, duplexes, and manufacturing housing” — and highlighted Turner’s work on opportunity zones. “Under his leadership at the White House Opportunity and Revitalization Council, we saw more than $50,000,000,000 enter into majority minority communities without gentrifying those communities under 5% gentrification,” the speaker said.
The speaker characterized the current situation as a national housing crisis and cited statistics attributed to surveys and broader economic measures. According to the speaker, homelessness rose 18% over the past 12 months and 33% since February 2020; housing prices have risen more than 50% since the referenced baseline and rents are up more than 20%. Those figures were presented by the speaker as context for urging confirmation.
The statement framed HUD’s mission as serving “the most vulnerable in our nation” and described Turner’s career — including state legislative service and leadership of White House work on opportunity zones — as qualifications. The speaker also said Turner would pursue “innovative solutions” and mentioned pending legislation on housing and opportunity zones that the speaker said they intend to work on with Turner.
The prepared remarks repeatedly appealed to both parties: “I urge my Republican and Democrat colleagues on this committee to advance Scott Turner’s nomination to the Senate floor,” the speaker said. The transcript contains no formal motion or vote and does not identify the speaker by name or title. No committee action or outcome on the nomination is recorded in the provided transcript excerpt.
The remarks combined policy claims, numerical assertions about housing and homelessness trends, and an explicit request that the committee advance Turner’s nomination. The transcript does not include responses from other committee members, any staff presentation, or a recorded vote on the nomination.
