Brad Miller

So my contention is title III of this bill eliminates people's options and opportunities to refinance their way out of foreclosure and default. So I would encourage my colleagues to vote for my amendment to strike I think the most…

I simply want to correct something I said earlier today. Earlier today I said the Mortgage Bankers Association was opposed to this bill. That is not correct. They do not support the bill. In a letter dated today, they outlined four areas…

I have said before that the remedies under this bill are very modest. They are so modest, in fact, that a great many consumers who have actually been harmed, who have clearly been wronged, who have clearly entered into a mortgage that…

So a mortgage originator under this subparagraph, the one we were speaking of a moment ago, will get paid exactly the same in total compensation, including both the compensation paid by the borrower and the compensation paid by the lender…

And is it also correct that any payment by the lender to the broker, or to use the language of the bill, any incentive compensation paid by any person to any originator, based on a higher interest rate, is still forbidden?

Is the Wall Street Journal out to lunch in saying that that was intentionally made as rich as it was so that nothing at all would pass? I do not expect that they have the gentleman on their speed dial the way they have Bill Thomas and Tom…

How does the gentleman from Missouri account for the public statements by Tom DeLay that this is not a priority for him and embracing the Senate position ``ain't going to happen,'' the public statement by Bill Thomas that this is not a…

I am staying up tonight, as I stayed up last week, because I think it is important that we adopt a child tax credit. I certainly knew that we could not afford it. We are digging a deep deficit hole that is going to drag down our economy…