Do you think that a 2-percent capital requirement is adequate--because we are a long way from 2 percent--to protect the taxpayers from baili...
Thanks to the support of Chairman Rogers and Ranking Member Jackson Lee, in 2010 the Travel Promotion Act was enacted...
I think it is disappointing that 4 years after the bursting of the housing bubble, the Committee has still not produced comprehensive housin...
Foreclosures remain, as the Chairman mentioned, at record levels.
Since the Administration admittedly did not have the key data, it seems to me, for evaluating the proposal, what is the basis for your suppo...
The American people, however, are tired of bailouts. It is time to take a more serious approach to fixing the housing market.
Do you know of any requirement that----
What would concern some of us up here on the GSE writedowns is that the GSEs would take the hit, ultimately the taxpayer now, since the taxp...
So that is the----
A lot of our concern--and I think Senator Corker has enunciated this, too, up here--is we do not want the taxpayer to take the hit.
At least not three times, right?
Well, that is the basic property law, isn't it?
Do you believe that this year and maybe next year we will have at least a million foreclosures, as some people predict?
Millions of mortgages are underwater, and Fannie and Freddie continue to lose money at the expense of the American taxpayer.
There have been serious lapses in HUD's oversight in the HOME program.
I am talking to you up here now also as an appropriator, I guess, although we are not in the Appropriations Committee.
At that time, Secretary Geithner stated that the Administration would work with Congress to develop housing finance legislation and that, qu...
Mr. Secretary, it has now been over a year since you and Secretary Geithner submitted your white paper on housing finance reform.
