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Senator Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.), a member of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, today appeared on CNBC's "Squawk Box." She celebrated the passage of the 21^st Century ROAD to Housing Act, the first comprehensive congressional housing legislation in 3 decades. Five Blunt Rochester bills were included in the final package.

A key excerpt is included below, and the full interview can be found here.

Senator Blunt Rochester: "I am a freshman senator, so in my first term to see something like this is amazing. It's been about three decades since the Congress, and since Washington has really moved on something this consequential for the American people related to housing.

"You think back to why this is so significant, and why Democrats and Republicans have come together - we've got about a 4 to 7 million housing units' shortage in this country, and people are feeling it.

Whether you're in a rural area, the north of the country, across the country, people are feeling the impacts of the housing affordability crisis that they're facing, and we came together and said 'we got to do something about it. We have to do something now.'

"My first bill as a senator was a housing bill, and I have five bills in this package. It's going to affect the American people, and that's the most important thing."

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