"If we want to help you and the $60 million banks and the billion-dollar banks and the banks under $10 billion and we legislate such that we cover $50 billion banks, why don't we just repeal Dodd-Frank?"
"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."
"It appears to me that FHA is on its way back. And I am proud to be associated with FHA. I believe in FHA."
"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."
"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."
"For decades, the United States has had the highest rate of uninsured in the industrialized world."