Jeb Hensarling actually said...

Thank you, Ms. Grimes, for your testimony. We know it is not always easy to be in this chair and discuss these types of charges.

reduce taxpayers' risk, codify into law an explicit government guarantee, and increase market competition.

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were more than mere bystanders in the 2008 financial crisis. They were in fact at the epicenter of that crisis.

If we ignore that basic fact, we are willfully disregarding history, and we are bound to repeat history.