Last month I introduced H.R. 1351, the U.S. Postal Service Pension Obligation Recalculation and Restoration Act.

I just hope that we don't forget the history here. Section 202 housing was developed for seniors.

Fannie and Freddie now provide about 90 percent of the financing or guaranteeing of all residential mortgages in the country today.

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Chairman, I do want to point out that the Neighborhood Stabilization Program that we're talking about here today isn't just dealing with foreclosures. As we all know in this country, there have been…

I am pleased to join my colleagues in the consideration of H.R. 793, which would rename the United States Postal Service facility at 12781 Sir Francis Drake Boulevard in Inverness, California, as the Specialist Jake Robert Velloza Post…

the funding authorization you have already deleted in section 2. So there is no funds and there is no authorization for FHA to issue a letter in connection with a program that no longer exists. So you have eliminated that. But when you are…

I rise in opposition to H.R. 830, the FHA Refinance Program Termination Act and also the other bills that will be coming to the floor on the same subject. I want to emphasize one thing that the ranking member has raised, and that is that…

Thank you, Madam Chair. I want to, first of all, clarify what this bill is intending to do. The goal of the bill by my colleagues is to end the FHA Refinance Program. While I do support voluntary workouts--and I think that's the best way…

The idea here, it's a two-step problem. One, the gentlewoman's bill would seek to eliminate voluntary agreements. Okay, so that's a problem. So we are asking the FHA and the homeowner and the lender and the servicer all to agree that this…

I do want to remind the Members, in spite of some of the pronouncements of the previous speaker, that there is fixed law that prevents Federal funding from being used for abortion. That is really not what this is about. This is about the…

I think we sometimes overlook the degree to which we have transformed the way we conduct business in this country with the respect to electronic transactions.

I heard a lot of complaints from the merchants in my district and across Massachusetts about the amount of money they were paying in these transaction costs.