Melvin Watt: “I have heard the gentleman say two or three times that this is subject to appropriation. I am trying to figure out what…”

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.

This is definitely the last time I will be addressing this House. As my colleague, David Price, has indicated, I have been confirmed to a new position as regulator and director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency. I just wanted to take a…

I don't think there is any question that somebody who gets good homeownership counseling, either pre-ownership, or in some cases post-ownership--it makes them better borrowers.

For the record, I neglected to indicate in my comments that our colleague, the chair of the subcommittee, announced last week during the period that we were out on the Veterans Day district work period that he was not planning to run for…