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I remain strongly committed to working with the Chairman and all of my colleagues toward a bipartisan solution in the near future.

The status quo means Government control of nearly all of our Nation's mortgage-backed securities market, stifling financial innovation.

These realities prove that inaction carries its own dangers in our housing market, as does action that merely gives the appearance of change without recognizing the mistakes of the past.

The status quo means little, if any, reduction in the $5 trillion of outstanding mortgage debt to which the taxpayer is currently exposed.

The issue of how we transition into a future system is one of the most important topics we will cover in this series of housing finance reform hearings.

We must learn from these mistakes.

We cannot afford to return to the days of weak regulatory oversight of the secondary mortgage market.

You did not promise us that if we politicians like your policy, we are going to let you keep it.

I commend you for holding this hearing, but probably not for the reasons that you think.

This has been a catastrophic failure across America.

The American people want to be free. We are smart people. We can make our own decisions.

It is working because this small part is, really is to ignore the overall problem.

That is really good to hear that they were working. People were able to sign up.

Whenever you try to socialize an industry or nationalize an industry like has been done here, it has never worked.

It has been tried in all kinds of socialist countries, and it never works, and it is not going to work here.

We look forward to moving that forward and appreciate his interest in it.

As we address this important issue, we must not return to the flawed politics of the past.

The President promised, if your family makes or earns less than $250,000 a year, you will not see your taxes increased a single dime.