Melvin Watt: “I think if you ask most people out in the public, there is actually the opinion that there is an unlimited guarantee to…”

unequivocally . . . it is the role of Congress, not FHFA, to make the decisions that chart the path out of conservatorship and to the future housing finance system.

I am not above the law. I don't believe that I am above the law.

As I have no further speakers, I urge my colleagues to support this bipartisan, commonsense bill, and I yield back the balance of my time.

I took a lot of heat for reinstating it. But it was a statutory mandate, and I did not see a reason not to follow the statute.