James M. Talent: “I do want to emphasize the importance to Members of the House who may not, and I certainly could not blame them if they…”

“I do want to emphasize the importance to Members of the House who may not, and I certainly could not blame them if they were not familiar with the ins and outs of all these programs, but I hope they will understand that these programs are important, that the committee does oversee them and that it is important that we move this legislation through to make all the different corrections that are in there. So I would ask of the House, let us get this bill out and get it in conference. I pledge to continue working with the gentleman. It is a small part of the bill over which we have a disagreement. There is no question that the bill as a whole moves in the direction of pushing the portfolio gently towards smaller loans. I like that. We have worked for that under my chairmanship. He have worked for that with the ranking member. This is a modest inflationary update. I would hope that we would have the House's confidence in being able to make it and that we can move this bill through. I would urge the House to support H.R. 2615.”