Jeff Merkley actually said...

You would be hard pressed to find a single family that bought their first house with a 20 percent down payment.

Merkley highlights concerns about the proposed down payment requirement affecting working-class families.

05/04/2011

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the possibility of bankruptcy judges to be able to renegotiate the terms.

I really encourage the Administration to look at it in a much more direct way.

We need to make sure that those mortgages provide a foundation for successful families. Not a mechanism to strip wealth from families.

How urgent is addressing the issue of mortgages as compared to the lending issues and the consumer demand issues that exist as part of this ...