Bill Delahunt: “Sixteen billion all together. MS. WASSERMAN SCHULTZ. Sixteen billion all together. Forgive me.”

That is why I take offense when I hear it is the Community Reinvestment Act that did this. That is baloney.

I think it says something about our system, our political system and how, you know, how there are powerful interests that oftentimes, I believe, don't really understand their own interests in the long term.

We didn't get here because of government. We got here because government didn't do its job.

I wanted to note that in hearings before the Committee which I Chaired there were a number of military prosecutors that testified that described that entire process as a sham, a joke and a fraud being perpetrated.