Mike Johanns: “I just don't think we should do that lightly.”

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…

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

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