Melvin Watt: “the default, generally for Congress I have found, is to do nothing, and I have found that is even more true for the…”

I am not above the law. I don't believe that I am above the law.

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.

Due process cannot be dispensed in 5-minute exchanges of questions and answers, or by politicians...

I thank the gentleman for yielding time. Mr. Chairman, I want to rise not so much in opposition to the manager's amendment, but in opposition to the bill and so that we can try to make sure that people understand what it is that they are…