Mike Johanns: “Pipelines are everywhere. I don't believe any State is unaffected by what's going on in this hearing today.”

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.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

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 ask for the yeas and nays. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Is there a sufficient second? There appears to be a sufficient second. The question is, Will the Senate advise and consent to the nomination of Joseph S. Hezir, of Virginia, to…