Let me pick up on the point of ground troops.
You can repeal them as long as you have something else in its place.
It is a totally different enemy than we faced in the past, but this has been a 16-year struggle.
I personally do not think the 2001 applies to this situation, I really do not, when you read it.
The authority has been properly used by the Congress in the 2001 AUMF.
Neither one of you said this: there should be no operational restrictions.
Do you think any of your bankers would not be put in jail? And yet that is exactly what the Federal Government is doing ...
If you had any other Federal program and 20 percent of the credits going out the door were wrong, would you continue tha...
Are you familiar with how the IRS handles tax changes passed in November or December, retroactively?
I can't imagine why anybody would pass a law requiring 30 pages of instruction, but apparently people around here did.
Is that the fault of the preparer or is that the fault of garbage in, garbage out?
We are having, I don't know, the 400th hearing on housing market, and yet we all agree it has to be done, but we can't g...
I don't think anybody has ever said Fannie and Freddie didn't play where they shouldn't have played, but they didn't cre...
In the 20 years I have been here, I have never seen a committee put out a major piece of legislation that then never mad...
The fact is we are doomed to repeat history unless we take the time and hearings like this one to dig into those difficu...
Americans deserve a competitive marketplace that provides choice and opportunity to the hardworking men and women of thi...
I think the question of what percent the market will bear should be preceded by what outcomes would you like to see on t...
It is important to remember that we are in the midst of an affordable housing crisis, and this funding plays an importan...
