Bob Corker

I think there is no question that you agree, as someone who spent a lot of time in this world, that we need to move past the system we have now where private sector investors do really, really well when the market is good, and then the…

So it seems to me that what we are already seeing out there is hedge funds and private equity and other folks who are willing to capitalize this system in such a way as to make it competitive and modular.

Would you agree that while it has been an attempt to stimulate the economy, the more well off have benefited much better than those at the lower end of the spectrum?

I think one of the things that we discussed was my concern--and I think yours, too--that in many ways easy money is an elitist policy.

So it seems to me that--I know there are some details that all of us need to work together to get to a good end, but it seems to me on the big ideas we are there.

I realized that with, you know, no equity down, you can really make an infinite return on your investment.

The standards get so watered down that we end up creating a catastrophe.

Just unbelievable. So you delivered trucks, but does he have weaponry?

Basically as far as I can see there is no real strategy relative to the opposition.

I know that Russia is driving this now. I mean, what we have really done is turn the future of Syria over to Russia.

We commend the efforts of the Chairman and Ranking Member for working in a thoughtful and transparent manner as you seek to reach consensus on legislation to reform the secondary mortgage market.

The United States cannot, and should not, be the key that resolves every dispute in this region.

I think it was one of the finer moments of this committee.

I met with Idriss in August and sat down with him, and those trucks were coming the next week.

to have it only kick in when an entity that is guaranteed becomes insolvent means that the strength of these guarantees has to be really there

We need to further increase our humanitarian assistance and insist on humanitarian access.

We need to have a comprehensive strategy and an answer to the basic question, what comes next.

the humanitarian situation, as Ms. Lindborg has laid out, is worse than it was a few months ago.

Mr. Chairman, thank you, and thanks for having this series of hearings.

We commend the efforts of the Chairman and the Ranking Member on thoughtfully working to create a comprehensive framework for the future of housing finance.

I think our help to the opposition has been an embarrassment, and I find it appalling that you would sit here and act as if we are doing the things we said we would do 3 months ago, 6 months ago, 9 months ago.

I ask for the yeas and nays. The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Is there a sufficient second? There is a sufficient second. The clerk will call the roll. The legislative clerk called the roll. The result was announced--yeas 81, nays 18, as follows:

I thank the Senator from Louisiana for her desire to see this to a conclusion. I appreciate the many ways we have been able to work together on so many issues. Look, I do not rise to blame either side right now. I do not. Let's face it, I…

Certainly Republicans have been in a place that was not going to lead to success for, you know, the last six weeks or so.

I want to take 30 seconds and say for the Record, I don't want anybody to think that I thought the strategy that was undertaken was the right strategy. I think I have been clear in saying I did not think that took us to a positive place…