Mike Johanns: “Let me focus on some specific items that are of interest to me. I want to start out with the GSEs.”

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.

Just a word or two to both leaders. Thank you so much for your kind words. I also want to say thank you for mentioning my wife Stephanie. This has been a remarkable partnership for a lot of years, and I could not have done what I did…

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.