Melvin Watt: “I will draw the line on any actions that are contrary to the interests of the taxpayers of the United States.”

if you look at my record throughout my whole life, from the day I started in the practice of law in a civil rights law firm, you will find nobody, or few people, who are more committed to the things that you all have talked about today.

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.

I support the concept of expanding access to affordable housing for both rental and ownership for the American people.

I think if you ask most people out in the public, there is actually the opinion that there is an unlimited guarantee to this space, and that is not true.