I thought last night's meeting was a healthy meeting. I am glad we did what we did. I appreciate the two leaders sponsoring that meeting, and I appreciate the time in which everyone spoke. I think with a lot of phone calls having been made…

First of all, I know there have been a number of conversations, and I appreciate the majority leader allowing me to talk with him recently on the phone. And I know we have an issue here. I would just go back to the question from the…

One of the things, no question, that many banks and credit unions around our country have been concerned about, even though Freddie and Fannie are 90 percent of all home mortgages today--and very dominant, obviously, because of what has…

I thank the Senator again for all the hours that have been spent. I think we have both realized this is a beginning point, meaning this is a piece of legislation that has a lot of bipartisan support among talented and wise…

Is there any question that the hedging that is taking place, the capital outflows that are occurring works against U.S. interest at present?

if we were to try to just shave a little bit for some reason, the risk factors geometrically grow.

I know that the leader of Afghanistan is a very frustrating individual, and I will say this and you do not have to agree.

I wish to thank the Senator from Virginia. I have thoroughly enjoyed working with him on this issue. We have been working on it since last fall. We spent a lot of time talking to various groups to try to get this right. We know that every…

I actually think it is very timely. I think decisions hopefully--hopefully--will be made soon.

I think that it has always been the hope that foreign policy and partisanship dissipate at the shoreline.

The process is that the House passes legislation, if they so choose. They may not choose to take up immigration. My sense is they will not take up this bill; they will take up their own bill. The way the process works is we conference…

I want to thank my friend from Alabama, who has been down here vigorously and shows a lot of stamina. I have a sense he is not going to support this legislation. I do want to talk, though, a little bit about this legislation this morning…