Mike Johanns: “We should not speak down to rural folk. They get this. They want to do it.”

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.

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

I just hope we are not over-engineering something here.

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.