we were in the middle of a tremendous economic collapse
Thank you for your service as Chairman of this Banking Committee. It has been a pleasure to serve on it.
I encourage you to put pedal to the metal in that regard.
I am not satisfied yet that homeowners have gotten a fair shake when we have been through this time and time again.
I am not quite persuaded of that, but thank you for pursuing it, because a lot of people would be more fairly treated with an appropriate cr...
Are you willing to aggressively pursue a model which would be fundamentally fair to homeowners?
Let me also ask that the record remain open for 1 week for additional statements and questions from Members.
When I was Speaker of the House in Oregon, we passed a law that limited the payday loan interest rates down to about 36 percent, which sound...
refinancing student debt should be a no-brainer.
So one idea we have been pursuing--and Senator Warren has been in the forefront of this--is enabling folks to refinance their higher-interes...
there is a demand for these loans; therefore, we should simply leave the system as it is and allow these 500-percent loans.