"Some eliminate, but I'm probably not going to lay out just exactly which ones are going to go," he said, according to a report by NBC News. The Department of Housing and Urban Development "might not be around later, and the Department of Education would be "a heck of a lot smaller," he said, according to The Wall Street Journal.
The quote given in the Washington Post is “Things like Housing and Urban Development, which my dad was head of, that might not be around later.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/post/mitt-romney-at-private-fundraiser-i-might-eliminate-hud/2012/04/16/gIQA5QuKLT_blog.htmlWhich is interesting, because Nixon reportedly nominated George Romney to be his Secretary of HUD because he wanted to punish him for not releasing his delegates at the 1968 convention, and HUD was seen as not very prestigious:
http://www.tnr.com/blog/the-stump/102722/will-mitts-budget-ax-have-oedipal-complex
