Mike Johanns: “It is just an enormously serious health condition, as you know.”

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

Could you do that and make it crystal clear to the public that you confirm that the role of conservator... is to be the bridge builder?

I think it would be beneficial.

Our job is to try to figure out how we deal with that puzzle, that very difficult issue of how to provide services to people who need it.