The legislation allows for specific assignment of lease and a Section 8 voucher contract to the immediate successor.

The bottom line is that it will give protections to people who need it.

the NAACP supports H.R. 1782, the Fairness for Homeowners Act of 2009, introduced by Congressman Keith Ellison of Minnesota.

I am very pleased that these protections are also provided in H.R. 1782.

I want to thank the entire panel and your being here to help inform us on how to formulate this legislation late on a Thursday night.

It seems like it would be an extraordinary waste of resources if that's what we do, create just one more cause of action that would ultimately result, I think, in restricting access to credit for a lot of families.

There is clearly an asymmetry of information and experience, so that duty might be beneficial.

I think that having a duty of care might help to alleviate some of that.

I hear it over and over again that they are not doing LEED because it is just too expensive.

We cannot do this in a cocoon.

The Europeans are using it as a smokescreen for their own regulation failure.

That is a simple test.

We should make it very clear that our banks cannot deal with financial institutions and banks from these jurisdictions that don't comply with the highest standards of regulation.

One of the things that Congressman Oberstar and I have learned is that there is supposed to be money set aside for bridge maintenance, but oftentimes that money goes to building new projects.

As a former prosecutor, when you have these Ponzi schemes and the Madoff case and things that result from these loose and ineffectual regulations from the past, so we could at least beef up some of the law enforcement's efforts in this…

We have a number of healthy banks in Minnesota, our community banks.

I have to get used to these things on the House side.

I appreciate this. Sounds like a very interesting discussion.