"My concern is--as your statement here last year and Chairman Bernanke's is the government is probably going to end up being there, and that is a huge concern if we don't define some role and purpose for them."
"Fannie and Freddie made some horrible, horrible mistakes, but in 2008 the default rate for the jumbo marketplace was greater than Freddie and Fannie's even."
"A perception continues to persist in the markets that some companies remain too big to fail, posing an ongoing threat to the financial system."
"The evidence is mixed whether market participants, specifically lenders to bank holding companies, nonetheless provide any funding advantage to the biggest financial companies based on some belief tha..."
"We certainly welcome the development of bipartisan housing finance reform legislation."
"The problem we have in government is we go before the voters every 2 years and we say, 'Trust us, elect us.'"
"Move away from that, but also remember those rules. It is not that each and every patient has to meet that criteria; 60 percent of the patients have to meet that criteria."
"I think Jon was saying and I think the Commission would agree, if you could get to a more bundled payment, either on an episode basis or a population basis, you could step back from these rules, have ..."
"I think what both of us have been saying is, you know, like your 3-day rule question and the 75 percent rule, or 60 percent rule, whichever it is at the moment, these are all things that, you know, we..."
"Oh, the actual percentage. My understanding of how the rules got set up is that clinicians came together and sort of looked at what types of patients needed to be in these types of facilities and stru..."
"Ms. Miller, you said that there was enough funds that had been paid into the Pension Guaranty Fund to adequately compensate the affected salaried employees whose pensions were denied."