They did have a powerful impact. They helped millions of families purchase homes.

In fact, the data studied by the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission and the Federal Reserve show that the affordable housing goals had no impact on either the subprime loans, the number of the subprime loans, or on the price of those…

All housing markets are local, but there is no community in our country that has a sufficient supply of decent rental homes.

I am concerned about S.1217's elimination of the affordable housing goals.

I wish to thank the Senator from Maine. I will do my very best. I rise to speak about the importance of passing the Employment Non- Discrimination Act, a bill I am proud to cosponsor and to support. It has taken us far too long to arrive…

I would tell the senior Senator from Maine, my plan had been to speak for less than 10 minutes. But if that does not work, I certainly will yield to the Senator from Maine and do what she requests.

I commend Senators Warner and Corker for the work they have put into S.1217 and how you have moved this debate forward.

We are very grateful to Senator Reed for his authorship of the Housing Trust Fund provisions in HERA.

We have got to look at both of these independently.

I know we agree that the problems with the Web site are unacceptable and that they need to be fixed.

I'm sympathetic to your position. The launch of our own Health Connector Web site for insurance wasn't smooth, but we kept working on it.

It would not be, for example, for other loans, to support other kinds of retail business, to support payday loans, to support tobacco stores.