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

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...

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.

Everything we have talked about today costs money, everything.

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

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.

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

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

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