"By the Corps' own data, Oregon has nearly 200 communities and 24 counties with levees that will need recertification."
"I think it is important to recognize that we are not just looking at the jobs we create by building and maintaining the infrastructure, but the jobs that we sustain and maintain through the low cost t..."
"That does not seem to be working in a way that we want it to."
"I will just close with this comment, and that is that the perspective presented by major banks before this Committee was that they are suspending the dual track for loans that they carry, but they are..."
"We all like things to be efficient and move quickly, get resolution for people, clarity for people."
"OK. So let me lay it out this way, then. If the four largest banks have reserves for repurchase of about $10 billion..."
"The current foreclosure crisis has been difficult and unprecedented, and we are far from done."
"I encourage every possible effort to try to make this modification track work better because it is an abysmal failure in terms of national policy right now and our economy and our families are going t..."
"I think all the Members of this Committee have constituents who are in the modification process."
"I am completely dissatisfied. We will continue the conversation."
"It is important to have national standards, but it is also important to have one regulatory agency that takes this on as its job with an eye to protecting consumers."