Mike Johanns: “I don't understand why this Administration isn't asking for trade promotion authority.”

I think it would be beneficial.

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.

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