Mike Johanns actually said...

Ordinary Americans will bear the brunt of the damage if our leaders do not prevent the United States from defaulting on its debt.

Warns that a debt default will harm everyday Americans.

10/09/2013

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I hope the legislation passes; I am one of the cosponsors.

There needs to be a different fashion than forcing the lenders to allocate resources where the loans have a higher potential of going bad.

I want to make certain that in any GSE legislation we are not committing the mistakes that have been made in the past.

I think we have a window of opportunity here, but I think that window closes for a whole variety of reasons.