the point of classifying documents is to protect national security. And often it seems that documents are classified to protect somebody's p...
It often seems that just plain old bureaucratic inertia gets in the way of declassifying documents that the public really has a right to kno...
I do want to start out, because your agency often does not get thanked, I do want to thank you and your agency.
I have to say I am pretty disappointed that we are now at this point and you are willing to have a dialogue.
Chairman, we are going to have more than one round, right? Hopefully. OK. Because I have a lot of questions.
What I envision for the O&C Lands has never been done before; and, frankly, it's very different from what's being proposed in Title I.
Just my rough calculation is it would cost twice as much as the current payments, which means maybe we ought to just find the money in your ...
I did support the President's initiative this week on the Buffett rule on taxes.
I particularly appreciate your putting before us the potential of changing the dysfunctional congressional structure itself.
So you are picturing not just an option, but a negotiated purchase price arranged up front?
Why not spend a little money in a matching grant program, not simply on a temporary basis...
I guess one thing I would be interested in is whether there is a way in which homes could be offered, if you will, to homeowners for a month...
I would say, if there is one thing we learned, liar loans are unacceptable.
The cloud of foreclosures, the five to eight million additional foreclosures is a huge problem for our economy.
My point is that if you are going to do a substantial discount, why not give individual families who have suffered with so much difficulty i...
Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I look at the fact that we subsidize homeownership through the home mortgage interest deduction, about $100 billion a year, roughly.
What if we had a $2,500 tax credit per person, $5,000 per person, had to be matched dollar-for-dollar by the homeowner, to help people becom...
