When I took over the gavel of this Committee in January of 2007, we held an extended set of hearings...
We are looking for a system that works here, making some decisions.
I am not--I don't know whether you want to acknowledge that number as something that is the number that the Department of the Treasury is ac...
The American economy was on the brink of total collapse.
Had they acted in 2007 on this issue more aggressively... I think we would have mitigated it substantially.
A lot of this may be anecdotal, so I want to be careful.
I have heard FHA is doing a dreadful job at this.
What is presently going on is just not working.
What plans do we have, if any, to assist our regional banks and community banks?
Thank you very much, Senator.
We are, after all, spending the American people's money.
What is being done about it? What can we do? I just find frustration.
There is a wave coming in commercial real estate that poses some real additional threats to our economic recovery.
the TARP should not be extended.
I would like to get a far more frequent analysis of how that is working.
I have heard that Freddie Mac does a pretty good job of getting the personal contact with people who could be falling into a foreclosure sit...
This cannot be seen as somehow a permanent program we have in place.
They were asking Congress for a blank check, with no protections for the taxpayers.
