Melvin Watt: “If anybody deserves to be treated as if they were not criminals it is kids who were brought here at 1 month, 2 years.”

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.

I want to be clear that the reason I would not raise my hand is because I would not make a unilateral decision.

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.

Woman, I thank the gentleman for yielding. I am pained to be here today in opposition to this bill. I stood shoulder to shoulder with the chair of our full committee 2 years ago in patent reform after working almost 6 years to find…