I have never been shy about my support for homeownership, having some difficulty as a boy growing up in terms of our homeownership and having lived in public housing.

I believe that HUD is going to move in the right direction.

I am especially pleased to hear you say that you would give the new Secretary, Secretary Castro, a 10.

My feelings are ambivalent on this topic of kidnapping for ransom.

Thank God we have an FSOC that can look across the entire spectrum and spot the AIGs of the world before they become a systemic risk.

It is indeed imperative that we look at this situation with student loans.

For decades, the United States has had the highest rate of uninsured in the industrialized world.

Fifty-two thousand people in the district would have had access to coverage if Texas had expanded Medicaid.

Overall, the insurance rate in our district has fallen by 8 percent.

The Affordable Care Act's enabled almost 20,000 people previously uninsured to get quality, affordable coverage.

I do believe that is what good for the regulator is good for the regulated.

This is a time of challenge and controversy. We are investigating allegations of discrimination.

I just believe that what is good for the regulator is good for the regulated.

while Mr. Cordray has not been a perfect public servant, he has been a good public servant.

We have jurisdiction over Goldman Sachs. We don't have jurisdiction--this committee has jurisdiction over all of the financial entities that are regulated.

I will be more than honored to address issues related to the Presidency, but our committee doesn't have jurisdiction over the President. We have jurisdiction over Goldman Sachs, however.

My belief is that people of goodwill who have decided that this is a course that we should embark upon will not cease and desist with the regulator.

I think that Congress should be fair to regulators and the regulated alike.

I have not drawn a final conclusion, just because we have heard allegations.

It is about invidious discrimination wherever it happens to be, not just at the CFPB.

Whatever happens anywhere else doesn't change our need to make sure that we help protect consumers.

The truth is, Mr. Cordray, that if you eliminated the work on the building, the renovation process today, it would not end the argument, the opposition to the CFPB.

I am committed to getting to the bottom of the allegations of discrimination. I believe that discrimination is abhorrent and that it must be eradicated.

We have reached a point in time where we have to take the axe of truth and slam it into the tree of circumstance and let the chips fall where they may.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is here. If we did not have it, we would be trying to create it.