Political Quotes

“If my colleague would yield quickly, I appreciate everyone wanting to make my bill stronger. We have a pretty good bill here, but every bill could use a little improvement, I admit. I want to compliment the Senator from Oregon, a member of the Banking Committee. He has been a very valued member of the committee. Those three new members on the committee have added tremendous value to our debates, and in particular, the Senator from Oregon has been wonderful in his concern about mortgages, prepayment penalties, what has happened to the 7 million foreclosures in our country, the 8½ million jobs that got lost in our Nation, why we need to address this issue, and why it is so critically important. I want to make one more point about this Shelby amendment that may be lost on our colleagues, and that is in our bill there is no assessment on a nonbank or a bank, but there are assessments in this amendment.”