What is likely to happen is that I will soon, within the next week or two, be asked to vote on this bill yes or no pretty much in the form that it is in now.
Michael Capuano
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Mike Capuano is a former U.S. Representative from Massachusetts, serving from 1999 to 2019. A member of the Democratic Party, he represented Massachusetts's 8th congressional district. During his tenure, Capuano was known for his advocacy on issues such as healthcare, education, and civil rights. He served on several committees, including the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, where he focused on infrastructure development and public transportation improvements in his district.
I guess, first of all, some of this stuff that has been talked about, Dodd-Frank, have any of your organizations ever testified in front of Congress to say there was too little regulation?
My average constituents are not interested in that. They just want to know if they can get a mortgage and their kids can.
As we have heard before, the focus of this discussion draft is protecting consumers and protecting taxpayers.
We need more rental housing options to keep up with the demand. Yet this proposal does the opposite: reducing liquidity; increasing building costs; and driving up working families' rent.
But, Mr. Administrator, if you have all the technology in the world, but people refuse to use it or won't use it for any good number of reasons----
I am starting to wonder to myself, especially now with sequester, if we are not going to be able to do...
I would urge you not to scale back your monetary stimulus until it is absolutely clear that the now-fragile recovery will hold.





