Melvin Watt: “But that is not a justification for an individual member of a collaborative body to make a unilateral decision to turn…”

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

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

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.

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.