Mike Capuano

I would love to see some more detailed statistics on that, because to be perfectly honest, when people come into my office foyer who can't access the program or they don't know about it...

My hope is that your proposal... will prompt us into at least having an adult conversation about where we want to go.

I want to congratulate you for having the courage to do it.

And to be perfectly honest, everybody likes to do different things. I am not one who likes to throw around hundreds of millions of dollars or billions of dollars because it doesn't mean much to my constituents.

I want to be clear. I am asking more than just sequester. We have a trust fund issue.

The sequester is only the beginning. We may have another one next year. We have a trust fund issue.

What I am looking for is the ability to have an honest discussion with not just my colleagues, but also my constituents, to tell them the truth.

For me it is much more interesting, when I go to my constituents, I talk about specific projects.

Everything we have talked about today costs money, everything.

If we allow the FHA to continue going where it is going... there will be no middle-class people.

I find that hard to believe when you are increasing your mortgage here.

I do caution people that no government program should be run as a private program.

Do you think the FHA should be shut down because it is bankrupt?

I think Mr. Capuano made a great point earlier--what is the right formula.

But there is no given that somehow the FHA or government involvement in certain aspects of the market is a good thing.

I guess I am trying to make the point that private insurance is a good thing.

I think it speaks for itself, when you lose 40 percent of the companies doing the business, that there is an inherent problem that everybody has to share.

I invite my colleagues again to sign on to H.R. 1028, which will stop and prevent a stupid law.

I can't imagine that anyone would defend a stupid law, and therefore we should change a stupid law.

From what I see, things are moving in the right direction.

I happen to believe that had it not grown at the time it did, there would be no housing market right now.

The bottom line is, I agree with many of the things that the chairman said.

My presumption is that you don't have an account somewhere in the FAA that is labeled 'waste, fraud, and abuse.'

Well, I--that is a very nice way to--in my opinion, I think you just said it was a stupid idea, but that is OK.

I think that I would say that it is a difficult program to administer under the rules that it is structured under.