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Transcript of Sen. John McCain’s March 25 speech on housing, as prepared for delivery, from www.johnmccain.com.

"Thank you for joining me here today. I just returned from a trip
overseas that included assessing the state of affairs in Iraq, the
Middle East, and Europe. I will have more to say on those important
issues in the days and weeks to come.

"While I was traveling overseas, our financial markets experienced
another round of upheaval. This market turmoil leaves many Americans feeling both
concerned and angry. People see the value of their homes fall at the
same time that the price of gasoline and food is rising. Already tight
household budgets are getting tighter. A lot of Americans read the
headlines about credit crunches and liquidity crises and ask: "How did
we get here?" In the end, the motivation and behaviors that caused the
current crisis are not terribly complicated, even though the alphabet
soup of financial instruments is complex. The past decade witnessed the
largest increase in home ownership in the past 50 years. Home ownership
is part of the American dream, and we want as many Americans as
possible to be able to afford their own home. But in the process of a
huge, and largely positive, upturn in home construction and ownership,
a housing bubble was created."…
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