Melvin Watt: “it simply says our Nation should promote the goal of providing decent and affordable housing for all citizens through…”

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

As I have no further speakers, I urge my colleagues to support this bipartisan, commonsense bill, and I yield back the balance of my time.

What we learned, first and foremost, is that having one foot in the public sector and one foot in the private sector does not work because when you have a foot in the public sector, taxpayers take the risk, and a foot in the private…

I think if you ask most people out in the public, there is actually the opinion that there is an unlimited guarantee to this space, and that is not true.