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

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

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.

Everything we have talked about today costs money, everything.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

And so, as we are faced with sequestration, we must understand the negative impact that sequestration and these cuts will have on jobs and the economy.

I think that is probably the worst advice that is out there.

Be prepared to get a request from me later on to try to do that quantification.

we don't want it to be here, it is not here.

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