Mike Johanns: “As members of this committee, we have a significant responsibility to ensure the hard-earned tax dollars for millions of…”

I think, as you said, the U.S. taxpayers continue to be very much on the hook and at risk as we do nothing to reform our system and maintain the current structure in which we have Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac under U.S. Government control.

Let us make it right this time. Let us not make it so that the only thing that happens is the narrow band of things that everybody agrees to.

I need more money. I need to be bigger, faster, grander. I need a bigger bureaucracy. I need to hire more people.

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…