Let me echo what Sheila said on the issue of the housing market and just add to that something I noted in my written testimony.
These problems may have resulted in problems for borrowers who otherwise may have been able to pay their mortgages.
Many Members up here--I mentioned Bob Menendez, among others in this Committee, going back a long time who talked about ...
They had plenty of warnings from Congress.
It is important also to remember that while it was servicers who caused this problem, it is borrowers who are, of course...
Whenever we get to the point where we say, that couldn't happen in America because of the processes we have set up, well...
We have seen a 50 percent decline in infrastructure investment in America as a percentage of our GDP since the 1970s.
To ignore the needs of the electric grid, to ignore the needs of broadband... there has to be broadband buildout.
I would like to thank the panel for their very good comments.
If we do not do something about infrastructure in this country, we are cooked as an economic power.
the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania has done some extraordinary things, but the real leader in public-private partnerships ...