Melvin Watt: “what is the problem with exempting these important things that my colleagues acknowledge systematically are important?”

We need the availability of capital for people to be either homeowners or affordable renters.

No one is above the law.

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.

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.