Lynn A. Westmoreland

I hope that we can get FHA back to the original intent that it was created for: to help the first-time homebuyer and people who might not otherwise be able to attain a mortgage.

once again, we find the government picking winners and losers.

your answers are the equivalent of giving me and this Congress the finger.

As expected in the President's budget released this month, FHA will need a taxpayer bailout.

I suggest that you get out of Washington and that you go into some of these States and that you talk to some of these people.

When Congress asks an agency to testify, I think they should come, period.

Since Dodd-Frank passed, all we have seen is the uncertainty and the harm this law has brought to working Americans and small businesses.

I want to compliment you on the witnesses, because I don't think there is any better way to find out the holes in a program than to have people who have found those holes.

For 2011, Section 8 Programs consumed 61 percent of HUD's budget. This is unacceptable.

Credit unions are a vital part of our Nation's financial sector. They serve their members well and are in touch with their local communities.

Despite the Administration's assurances that 2010 would be a recovery summer, consumers are still struggling to gain access to credit.

Is the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau going to regulate these banks that are doing that, or are you all going to continue to regulate them, as far as consumer protection?

I want to just say, you know, as I spent time at home this weekend, I would see the polls were 38 percent of the American people in favor of this stimulus bill. Evidently those 38 percent don't understand that this is a…

And reclaiming my time, I'd like to remind the gentleman that is a history lesson, and I think the people of our country and our constituents right now are looking to the future and what we're going to be doing in the future. And in…

The bill that he has announced for next week, the public lands omnibus bill, is a bill that actually contains 130 separate bills, and it authorizes $10 billion in taxpayer spending. Given our current economy, I would think that Congress…

210 amendments offered, and about 95 of those were Republican, and so if I'm hearing the gentleman correctly--and I will yield for an answer--only four of those were worth having a vote on the floor?

The gentleman brought up a good point about government and the fact that we have an interest now in banks and we have an interest in the car business. We even have a car czar I guess that's going to tell them what kind of cars will sell…

What I would like to do today is to talk a little bit about the new stimulus package that President-elect Obama and some of the leadership has been talking about, the last stimulus package that we did, the rescue plan, and talk a little…

Thank you. Let me say this. I think $1 trillion is actually 12 zeros. That is amazing. So I hope, Mr. Speaker, that anybody that is watching would go to a Web site that has got some of these math solutions on it and look at exactly how…

Well, and I think the gentleman makes a great point because, you know, change was the key word of this election cycle. And I think the American people love that word ``change,'' and they did want to change. But I think the change they…

Let me say this, that it is a shame that we are having to limit so much of the travel. We need to conserve, but we can't conserve our way out of this. The real shame of this is when winter comes and natural gas is twice what it was. Mr…

I guess about 2 weeks ago probably I started getting some phone calls about different petitions on the Internet and other places about the prospects of America becoming more energy independent, that we would not be dependent on foreign oil…

Thank you. January 18, and these are quotes from H.R. 6, which was their mantelpiece legislation. This was their commonsense plan, I guess, for bringing down the skyrocketing gas that at the time was $2.23 a gallon: Ms. Sheila Jackson-Lee…

Well, what I wanted to point out, this is what ANWR looks like. It's kind of a frozen tundra. I had some young people up here the other day from a school, and one of them asked me a question, said, Are you for drilling in ANWR? I said…

Reclaiming my time, evidently taking these tax breaks away is not lowering the price of oil either.