Hillary has demonstrated the equanimity, the prudence, the fortitude that have made her an exceptional leader and public servant.

I am just hoping that you will have, as my colleague, Senator Menendez said, not a seat at the kid's table, but a seat at the main table.

The sooner housing markets stabilize based on sustainable fundamentals, the sooner I believe we will see a recovery in the market and in our economy.

I want to thank you and Ranking Member Shelby for the honor of introducing Shaun Donovan.

I believe the FHA program poses significant risk to taxpayers and therefore requires diligent oversight by you, Mr. Secretary.

Judge Sotomayor puts the rule of law above everything else. Judge Sotomayor has hewed carefully to the text of statutes, even when doing so results in rulings that go against so-called sympathetic litigants.

If her name were Caroline Jones, you're saying, she wouldn't have as good a chance.

Let's look at the facts, or as Pat Moynihan used to say, 'Everyone's entitled to their own opinions, but not their own facts.'

At the risk of stating the obvious, it is worth noting that at the height of the housing boom, the President and his supporters in and out of Government did nothing to criticize or stop predatory lending.

There clearly are victims here, and there clearly are violations of the law without question.

The overwhelming majority of predatory subprime loans were made by lenders and brokers who were not, I repeat were not, subject to CRA.