"it seems like this is an unseemingly high amount of money being spent by the taxpayers to defend what appears to be egregious misconduct."
"I took the lead in the Clinton administration, the Bush administration, and finally completing the job in this administration in bringing justice to black farmers who were discriminated against on Gov..."
"That figure is 70 times larger than the average settlement at Countrywide."
"I have already stated some opinion that I have about this, so you already have some background for questions I might ask."
"Your testimony references the settlement that the Department obtained against lenders who violated the SCRA."
"I fully support pursuing justice for victims of the mortgage crisis."
"it is actually tough to imagine a situation where even a non-U.S. citizen or member of al Qaeda captured abroad would be subject to the mandatory military detention."
"We can agree that all branches of Government believe that American citizens should be afforded due process of law."
"neither the mandatory military detention requirements under 1022 nor the procedures implementing 1022 apply to U.S. citizens."
"We need a bipartisan effort to guarantee that those arrested on American soil are not locked away indefinitely without charge or judicial review."
"the express language of the NDAA, which includes the Feinstein amendment, means that U.S. citizens are expressly outside the scope of the NDAA mandatory military detention provisions."