Mike Johanns: “I appreciate the candor of your response, I really do.”

I appreciate the fact that you have the Agricultural Advisory Committee up and running. Thank you for that.

I will continue to push this legislation, but many of its provisions are things that HUD has the flexibility to implement on its own.

It is Congress who will create the next housing finance system and that the next housing finance system is not the conservatorship of the FHFA.

Somehow we have got to figure out a better way, because at the most important time in this person's life, when they are crying out for help, it should be a simple, straight-forward pathway to access that help.