Melvin Watt: “I am deeply concerned that if the PPCA results in limited options for providers to merge or pool resources, health care…”

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.

There is nothing worse, I have found, in this area of the market than uncertainty, and the longer this drags out, the more uncertainty there is.

I think the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage has become a standard for American homeowners, and it is important to retain that.

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