Federal housing policy has long been disconnected from economic reality.

I think it is by the year 2040 or so one out of five Americans will be over the age of 65.

I want to reflect a little bit the importance of good Government policy versus bad Government policy.

Today is a day when we celebrate bipartisanship.

This Administration likes to talk about the need for more affordable housing, but as we all know, talk is cheap and leads to empty promises.

This Administration likes to talk about the need for more affordable housing, but as we all know, talk is cheap and leads to empty promises.

I want to reflect a little bit the importance of good Government policy versus bad Government policy.

Despite the overwhelming evidence and wide consensus that rent control or rent stabilization depresses supply...

As a guy who used to run a county and chairman of Charlestown County government, many of the issues that we are grappling with here in Washington really are local issues.

Threatening builders and housing providers with the possibility of rent control will only further increase the gap in housing supply.

For decades, Washington's response to housing challenges has simply been more spending.

The theory that modular or manufactured homes are of less quality and not as safe has consistently proven not true.

Despite the overwhelming evidence and wide consensus that rent control or rent stabilization depresses supply...

Threatening builders and housing providers with the possibility of rent control will only further increase the gap in housing supply.

Federal housing policy has long been disconnected from economic reality.

As a guy who used to run a county and chairman of Charlestown County government, many of the issues that we are grappling with here in Washington really are local issues.

Sometimes common ground typically leads to common sense, and we have found some common ground between the two of us.

I know that when you travel to my family's home town of Salley, South Carolina, that you see perhaps more manufactured homes or mobile homes or modular homes.

For decades, Washington's response to housing challenges has simply been more spending.

if you have more burdens on the business of building homes, you have more burdens on the ability to achieve the American Dream, which, for most of us, is home ownership.

Today is a day when we celebrate bipartisanship.

This Administration likes to talk about the need for more affordable housing, but as we all know, talk is cheap and leads to empty promises.

The prices of housing per square foot now has never been higher. If you have to have a minimum square footage to build a house, you are talking to first-time home buyers, and you are just saying, please do not bother thinking about being a…

I think it is by the year 2040 or so one out of five Americans will be over the age of 65.

if you have more burdens on the business of building homes, you have more burdens on the ability to achieve the American Dream, which, for most of us, is home ownership.