"The Zero Tolerance for Veteran Homelessness Act of 2009...has the potential to set this Nation on course to finally achieve victory in the campaign to end veteran homelessness in the United States."
"We must do more and move aggressively to ensure that qualified homeowners get access to existing initiatives."
"If we want to stabilize the economy, we must be sure we also address the root of the problem."
"I also want to thank Senator Isakson for his very eloquent and very profound testimony."
"This is an issue that needs to be addressed."
"The process can and should be more transparent."
"I look at the credit card industry as having been behind the bankruptcy reform and that its primary purpose was to keep people harassed longer before they could get into bankruptcy."
"There is nobody you could go to and say, 'Listen, you do not understand.'"
"The Medical Bankruptcy Fairness Act would change that."
"I believe the Medical Bankruptcy Fairness Act, introduced by Chairman Whitehouse, would help families like mine recover from medically-based financial hardship."
"But you have no choice. You still have to----"
"It would waive the means test and credit counseling requirements, which are unnecessary, time-consuming, costly, even humiliating for debtors forced to file by medical misfortune."
"The Medical Bankruptcy Fairness Act would give medical debtors across the country a fighting chance to save their homes."
"Families who think they are protected may be only one accident, one injury or one diagnosis away from family bankruptcy."
"It is a terrific and unjustified government intrusion, I believe, at the behest of the credit card industry."
"As we in Congress continue working on broad legislation to reform our broken health care system and ensure accessible, affordable health insurance for all Americans, we take advantage of this hearing ..."
"94 percent of metropolitan areas have a health insurance market that is highly concentrated."
"In nine States, a single insurer controls at least 75 percent of the market."
