Robert Menendez actually said...

the absence of getting an AUMF from the executive branch and Congress not acting... would, in essence, create a de facto veto of the constit...

I think this is a national emergency and that we need to think very creatively and boldly about how we solve this problem.

The housing market was at the epicenter of the financial crisis and the Great Recession that followed.

These were not the drivers of the crisis.