There is an occupation on Wall Street in New York that is taking place by protestors and the protestors are growing every day.

It was designed to stabilize neighborhoods. That is why it is called the Neighborhood Stabilization Project.

It is my bill that I created, and it was signed into law by President Bush, not Obama but President Bush.

I am pleased that, as part of the American Jobs Act, the Administration has recommended expanding the highly successful Neighborhood Stabilization Program.

We have discovered that the weeds had grown up, animals had taken over some, on and on and on, and it was driving down the value of other homes in the neighborhood.

The Administration's response to date simply hasn't been bold enough.

With 3 million families at risk of losing their homes this year, there is a clear need for programs that prevent foreclosures.

I don't want to interrupt you, but some of us have been wondering for a long time what you are saying about principal writedown?

It is a good program. I am glad President Bush signed it into law.

They are basically reciting their concerns. They are very concerned that 1 percent of rich Americans do not pay their fair share of taxes.

I hear that we are all moving in the same direction, which is good.

If we don't have the right people, if we can't recruit and retain the right people, this is not going to work.

You can't decide where to allocate your resources if you don't know where they are going already.

I think the chairman deserves credit, a lot of credit, for focusing the committee, and the country hopefully, on that discussion.

A lot of well-meaning mortgage-foreclosure moratoriums and abatements and those things, in many ways, have actually made the problem worse and last longer.

If we can get you there, if we can keep you in the home and work those out, we are going to get you there.

you have to hit a decision point and actually make that tough decision, but you have to make it.

extending unemployment benefits is one of the biggest stimuluses [sic] to our economy. . . . It creates jobs faster than almost any other initiative that you can name.