The mortgage interest deduction is going nowhere. The sun will disappear before it goes away.
I don't think there are 50 votes to get rid of it.
If I were starting a new country, I would not have it. I don't think it is ideal tax policy.
Everything has some impact. It is whether or not it has a major impact.
This is a very significant issue, and deserves the type of honest debate that--we have seen some of that here today.
As former Chairman of the Federal Reserve Alan Greenspan said, their failure, Fannie and Freddie, is because they paid w...
part of this bill would repeal the mission of the GSEs to serve the section 202 elderly market.
I wish the gentleman from New Jersey was right and Dodd-Frank completely eliminated too-big-to-fail.
That may be a noble goal, but we also have to protect taxpayers from the precipitous removal of Fannie Mae and Freddie M...
Those measures must both encourage the return of private capital to the market, while also ensuring that we do not disru...
If we move too precipitously, we run the risk of destabilizing our economy.
Thank God we have at least one forum that is presenting the other side today.
Under the Hensarling comprehensive GSE reform bill, he would like to completely privatize.
I think that it was said by one of you that this should not be a partisan issue, that this should be a bipartisan issue.
You can't dismiss someone as a mascot.
I am committed to working with my colleagues on a practical, comprehensive reform proposal to reshape our housing financ...
I know that there are those who believe that somehow there were too many people who could not afford mortgages who were ...
I am open to perhaps restructuring how we support affordable housing in a future housing finance system.
