Mike Johanns: “I pay attention to those USDA numbers kind of religiously.”

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

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

But to anyone who might be listening in who is wondering if is it time to give up, it is not.

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.