It is a totally different enemy than we faced in the past, but this has been a 16-year struggle.
Neither one of you said this: there should be no operational restrictions.
You cannot fight war by consensus. You cannot fight war with a collective approach.
Let me pick up on the point of ground troops.
I personally do not think the 2001 applies to this situation, I really do not, when you read it.
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...
The fact is we are doomed to repeat history unless we take the time and hearings like this one to dig into those difficu...
If you had any other Federal program and 20 percent of the credits going out the door were wrong, would you continue tha...
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...
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...
Is that the fault of the preparer or is that the fault of garbage in, garbage out?
It is important to remember that we are in the midst of an affordable housing crisis, and this funding plays an importan...
I can't imagine why anybody would pass a law requiring 30 pages of instruction, but apparently people around here did.
Are you familiar with how the IRS handles tax changes passed in November or December, retroactively?
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 think it is a mistake. However, to look at them in sort of disparate tracks and instead to look at housing finance ref...
Do you think any of your bankers would not be put in jail? And yet that is exactly what the Federal Government is doing ...