These two entities Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are not facing any kind of financial crisis. The more people exaggerate these problems, the more pressure there is on these companies, the less we will see in terms of affordable housing.
BARNEY FRANKI have been mislabeled as a big advocate of low-income home ownership over rental.
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Well, many of us believe that excessive media concentration is a subject that ought to be addressed, and it is, of course, the intention of the majority party not to allow that to be discussed.
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If people knew of ethics violations, they should have sent them to the Ethics Committee. If you think there was serious ethics violation that ought to be looked at, you don’t hold it back for retaliatory purposes.
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Excessive partisanship is the problem. There has never been a democracy in the history of the world in a polity of any size where you didn’t have political parties. Even sometimes over the objections of the people who started it.
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In the debate between those who believe in essentially unregulated markets and others who hold that reasonable regulation diminishes market excesses without inhibiting their basic function, the subprime situation unfortunately provides ammunition for the latter view.
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Whenever people are being intellectually dishonest in debate, it is an implicit concession they have lost the fight
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Today, many people take for granted the notion that people whose lives are going to be very heavily affected by public policies should have a say in how they are formulated and carried out.
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I will tell you, I’m a lousy cook, but I think I’m a pretty good judge of a good meal.
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Donald Trump has done more for getting people to understand the importance of public policy that respond to public needs in an affirmative way than anything we could have done on our own.
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Conservatives believe that from the standpoint of the federal government, life begins at conception and ends at birth.
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There is an irony that the most active anti-gay groups are Al-Qaeda and the American Right wing.
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Moderate Republicans are reverse Houdinis. They tie themselves up in knots and then tell you they can’t do anything because they’re tied up in knots.
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For the trustees to turn away from the entirely reasonable request of the students that a hearing-impaired individual be made president of the college is a very unfortunate expression of insensitivity.
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I believe it is a good thing to get rid of Gaddafi. But does America have to do everything?
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We all have the right to call each other names. Rudeness is a deeply held constitutional value.
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The single most important thing you can do politically for gay rights is to come out. Not to write a letter to your congressman but to come out.
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