If Congress would just pass the President's budget... would our readiness issues be much easier to deal with than they a...
Congress could have fixed this. Congress shouldn't have put it in place.
We really are dealing with a problem that Congress created and only Congress can fix.
The problem with sequester is it's money, it's timing, and it's flexibility, and all three of those create problems.
The idea of saying, first of all, do no harm, so whether it is low-income housing credits, whether it is Section 8, whet...
I want to start where Senator Johanns left off and thank him and the cosponsors of 1217 because you are right.
But when we think back from a policy standpoint, who would have ever designed a system where we combined the function of...
Let us face it, they were damned if they do, damned if they do not.
S.1217, the Housing Finance Reform and Taxpayer Protection Act introduced by Senators Corker and Warner, represents an i...
I hope that will be days or weeks in terms of getting your comments in specific language, because, you know, we have bee...
But then if they do this, we would have to still figure out a way for your role so that if this basket of securities wou...
We would also like to recognize the work of Senators Mark Warner and Bob Corker, and the Members of this Committee who h...
I would love to see more comments on that.
I guess what I would urge is that, working with Committee staff, you will agree, within a very, very short period of tim...
Without those specific comments, language comments, we are not going to get there.
I appreciate particularly the final comments of Mr. Canter about the flexibility in S.1217.
I do think Mr. Swagel's comments that if the 10 percent mark has been a bit overshot...
We are encouraged by recent legislative activity that has revived this policy debate on the future of Fannie Mae and Fre...
