John Ensign: “The second part of the amendment would have given a $15,000 tax credit to buy homes. That would have helped to stimulate…”

“The second part of the amendment would have given a $15,000 tax credit to buy homes. That would have helped to stimulate the housing market. Unfortunately, in this bill, that was dramatically cut down. And the third part was to help those houses underwater. This spending bill that is before us could have been made so much better if we had sat down in a bipartisan fashion--not as Republicans, not as Democrats, but as Americans. I hope we learn from the way this bill was done that it is not the way we need to fix some of the major problems the country will face in the future. I hope we can actually sit down in a bipartisan fashion.”