It is our hope that we could generate such a provision on a bipartisan basis.
Thank you very much for listening, and I am happy to answer any questions.
I want to give Jack great credit for the success of that.
Thank you, Your Honor.
I know that Richard Godfrey and the Rhode Island Housing team is working very hard to get that up and operating and help...
This has been, I think, a very helpful hearing, and I want to say some particular thank you's.
I think, again, if we can get a program like you have suggested--and I concur with the notion there has to be a referee ...
Unless we successfully deal with this issue of foreclosure, the economy will not expand as it should, and people's lives...
I just find it--'ironic' is too mild a term.
That strikes me as not only unfair but terribly inefficient, because the point of a lot of the macroeconomic policy has ...
The foreclosure issue is not only a drag on the economy, but... it is a source of exasperation, anxiety, anger, frustrat...
We have to think creatively.
I mean, one of the things that we have been trying to do is to incentivize, one way to describe it, a much more proactiv...
The effort that you have undertaken to come in here and to do that is really valuable for us.
But it strikes me, stepping back, that because of national policies, Federal Reserve policies, we have lowered the effec...
I want to commend Judge Votolato for following that lead.
It gives Senator Reed and me real leverage in Washington to be able to do this.
I hope is analytical and apolitical, which attracts the best minds that are looking across the system and forward.