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This is in line with my consistently repeated belief that it is the role of Congress, not FHFA, to decide on housing finance reform.

I don't think you would want either Republicans or Democrats, I don't think either one would want 15, 20 percent of their economy in conservatorship for years and years.

Due process cannot be dispensed in 5-minute exchanges of questions and answers, or by politicians...

There is no rational reason, if you think about it, why a superior tax lien would be having an interest rate of 10, 11, 12 percent when a lien subordinate to it is going at 4 percent or 5 percent.