I believe it is important, as we look at the current termination on November 30th, to consider what is going to happen if we do not extend that credit.

The corporate relocation market is basically dead.

Nobody argues that the tax credit has worked.

What I have done is Senator Dodd and I and Lieberman and others who were sponsors of it, we removed the first-time homebuyer qualification.

I learned a long time ago in Government that legislation is about the art of the possible.

It has been an honor to be here today and I enjoy serving with each and every one of you.

if we just rearrange the deck chairs, Johnny Isakson, who is probably the most eloquent spokesman of this, in another decade will be up here talking to us about another crisis that has occurred in real estate if we do not change the…

I actually sold houses with 16.5 percent interest on the houses and negative amortization on the loans.

The solution to that housing crisis was a tax credit.

My answer, reluctantly, is, 'Five years or longer, unless Washington does something.'

do you coordinate these sanctions with the State Department?

How severe is it? Is it a famine like drought?

the United States does not have broad economic sanctions on the country of Zimbabwe.

when I was in Tanzania in May, I visited CARE's operation in a number of places

it's absolutely critical that reform and transition take place and that the United States be engaged appropriately to see to it that that happens.

I think Ms. Lindborg called it a 'modest contribution' to the multinational fund.

if these guys that are taking money or minerals and diamonds, and are getting it offshore and then trying to launder it for their own benefit, you try and put sanctions against those who are the facilitators for that.

we're in a not-enough mode, in terms of supporting the credible parts of the coalition.