Jeff Merkley actually said...

"Thank you very much again for your testimony. I join you in considering this as something we should be working on day and night until we can put it in place for the families and for our economy."

"I am not pleased to be able to introduce the Rebuilding Equity Act in order to try to capture this concept and see if we can take this forward in the Senate."

"It is housing that brought us into this recession, and certainly, depending on how we manage it, it is either going to lengthen the time that we are in the economic ditch or it is going to help us fin..."

"I, quite frankly, was shocked by the numbers that you presented, that the monopoly strategy in HARP 2 results in the difference between--I think it was between $15,000 and $4,000 in refinancing."