Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, Mr. Royce mentions 2003, 2004, 2005 should have changed the GSEs in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Well, the Republicans controlled the House, the Republicans controlled the Senate, the Republicans controlled the White House, and they didn't do it. In fact, his former chairman on financial services, Republican Mr. Oxley, says the critics forgot that the House stepped up on reforming bills, but he fumes about the criticism that people are giving about Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. He says all the--this is from the Financial Times, September 9, 2008: All of the handwringing and bedwetting is going on without remembering how the House stepped up on this. He said: What did we get from the White House? We got the one-finger salute. Very graphic quotation from Mr. Oxley, Republican chairman of the House Financial Services Committee saying that it was the White House that stopped the changes that needed to be stopped, and it's the billions of dollars from those mortgages from 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 under Republican leadership that are weighing down Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac that under the Democrats we offered conservatorship and that's what they're in now, like a bankruptcy. With that, I yield 2 minutes to my friend from Minnesota (Mr. Ellison).”