I believe the Medical Bankruptcy Fairness Act, introduced by Chairman Whitehouse, would help families like mine recover from medically-based...
It would waive the means test and credit counseling requirements, which are unnecessary, time-consuming, costly, even humiliating for debtor...
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.
94 percent of metropolitan areas have a health insurance market that is highly concentrated.
Just sort of a basic element of plain old fair play, isn't it?
In 39 States, two health insurers control at least half of the market.
In nine States, a single insurer controls at least 75 percent of the market.
But as we have seen during this crisis, many of those, if not most of those, AAA-rated securities have, in fact, been downgraded.
And what is the breakdown between the mortgage-backed securities and----
I understand also that they were given credit by the regulators for their affordable housing goals with the purchase of much of these market...
Careful consideration should be given to the desirability of fixed rate mortgages and the mechanisms for maintaining that market.
Regulators should always seek to build an a margin of safety as there is always a risk that the theory underlying the regulatory regime fall...
I think we are confronting--I applaud your efforts to go forward prospectively, but we have a huge problem with what we have to deal with ri...
The Commercial Mortgage Securities Association (CMSA) is grateful to Chairman Reed, Ranking Member Bunning, and the Members of the Subcommit...
I believe that continuation of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac as member owned cooperatives would serve to establish standards.
I thank the Subcommittee for the opportunity to testify today.
After these deliberations, we came to the conclusion that Judge Thompson was uniquely qualified to serve on the First Circuit.
