Sheldon Whitehouse actually said...

"This proposal would have corrected an anomaly in the Bankruptcy Code that prohibits judges from modifying primary residence mortgages the way they can modify every other type of contract."

"Yes. That is true in politics, also."

"Many of us in Congress, led by Senator Durbin, tried to include in the TARP legislation a provision that could have kept millions of families in their homes at zero cost--zero cost--to the taxpayers."

"I just want to observe that it takes a bold legislator to want to go back into that blasted wasteland, and I'm delighted that you are doing it."