Melvin Watt: “if the gentlemen will give us some more time, we have a whole list of speakers over here. But we are going to run out of…”

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 will not hesitate to use my full subpoena power to compel cooperation where necessary.

I am wondering, if you think this is redundant and extraneous rather than contrary to the intent, why wouldn't we just accept the amendment and keep going?

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