“I think we can all unequivocally say in 2026, football is not going anywhere.”
“When giant corporations and Wall Street investors buy up all the fire truck manufacturers, it’s a threat to public safety.”
“I want to stop the spread. They are picking homes like you, and I pick tomatoes in the grocery store.”
“It is imperative that FEMA helps communities quickly respond to wildfires and increase their resilience to future wildfire disasters”
“They are picking houses the way you pick tomatoes at the grocery store.”
“Protecting and defending innocent life is and remains important to our Legislature, governor, attorney general and citizens.”

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Bob Menendez

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Robert Menendez is a prominent Democratic politician currently serving as a member of the United States Senate, representing New Jersey. He was first elected to the Senate in 2006 and has since been re-elected multiple times. Menendez has played a significant role in various policy areas, including foreign relations, immigration reform, and healthcare. He has served on several Senate committees, including the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, where he has been an advocate for human rights and democracy abroad.

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Sep 19, 2011

And what would you want to see in that respect, the number of individual properties that could be----

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Sep 19, 2011

Right now, who is the biggest holder of this liability? It is all of us as Federal taxpayers through the GSEs and the FHA?

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Sep 19, 2011

I think the way you have to deal with negative equity is by doing principal reductions.

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Sep 19, 2011

we get this housing market moving again.

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Sep 19, 2011

In my view, we need to do even more to fix the housing market, get the broader economy moving again, and create jobs.

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Sep 19, 2011

we do not need more piling on. We need to incentivize the market, not de-incentivize it.

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Sep 19, 2011

that is going to have an impact on the market.

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Sep 19, 2011

I also think that when you say 20 percent, it seems to me that the broader criteria of determining the lending criteria is important.

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Sep 19, 2011

A plan for unemployment is a plan for housing.

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Sep 19, 2011

I appreciate moral hazards as much as anyone else. I think there are moral issues into how people were led into mortgage products they should have never been into.

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Sep 19, 2011

If we do not take an aggressive approach and force people to say, let us align the incentives...

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