Jeff Merkley actually said...

I look at the fact that we subsidize homeownership through the home mortgage interest deduction, about $100 billion a year, roughly.

So we are spending all this money to help reduce the price of a house in the longer term.

I guess one thing I would be interested in is whether there is a way in which homes could be offered, if you will, to homeowners for a month...

The cloud of foreclosures, the five to eight million additional foreclosures is a huge problem for our economy.