we have shed over 600,000 public sector jobs since the beginning of the financial crisis in late 2008.

The only way that they were able to own a home was through an FHA loan.

Today 50 percent of all African-American and Latino families are using FHA in order to purchase a home.

Close to 80 percent of the mortgages we make in the purchase area are for first-time homebuyers.

Without the FHA, we would have had 3 million fewer jobs and a 2 percent decrease in GDP.

If it wasn't for FHA, I might not even be sitting here, because my experience was with my parents when they first bought their home.

Isn't that the mission of what FHA is all about, and, therefore, they are continuing that original mission?

FHA's core mission is to help creditworthy low- and moderate-income families.

The attacks on our mission in Benghazi were a painful reminder to all of us that our diplomats of course are in harm's way. And they are in some of the same unstable and even hostile environments as our military.

Madam Secretary, let me first thank you. First of all, I want to thank you for an extraordinary daughter who came to the Rockaways after Sandy, just helping people, unannounced, without fanfare, just getting down and helping people because…

When you took the job, America had a tarnished image abroad. You have revised our brand, traveled over 1 million miles to the furthest reaches of the world, to the most challenging areas, and touched the lives of the most vulnerable.