Melvin Watt: “I yield such time as she may consume to a valued member of our Intellectual Property Subcommittee and a valued member of…”

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

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…

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…

Congress has given us this mandate: Do lending, back loans that are safe and sound, and provide liquidity in the market.