Vito Fossella: “Had I been present, I would have voted "yes" on 373, "yes" on 375, "no" on 376, "yes" on 377, and "no" on 378.”

I rise in support of the Fossella-Crowley amendment, and I first want to thank Chairman Rogers for the tough task he has of putting together a good bill. My amendment would increase by $20 million the High Density Urban Area Program by…

Mr. Chairman as we consider H.R. 1461, the Federal Housing Finance Reform Act, I would like to urge my colleagues to support the inclusion of a provision to provide an increase in Conforming Loan Limits for high cost Metropolitan Service…

I would like to thank Mr. Kingston and Ms. DeLauro. And of course my colleagues, Mr. Crowley, Mr. Weiner, and Mr. Nadler, because despite this being a national problem, as you can imagine, are very specific to New York, and in my case…

the threat to the United States is still very real. Just yesterday it became public that one of the terrorists responsible for the Madrid train bombings had sketches of New York City's Grand Central Station on his computer. A few days ago…