Mike Johanns: “I put in an amendment that basically would have said, 'Hey, you cannot use any funding we give you for these kinds of…”

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.

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.

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

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.