Mike Johanns: “I look forward to working with Senator Tester on this committee. We can get a lot done working together, and let us just…”

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.

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…

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.

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