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Volume 10 - Number 28

January 27, 2012

House Dems Want Obama to Appoint New FHFA Head

California Democrats, including many in the state’s congressional delegation, would like the current head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency replaced by President Obama for someone who will take “immediate action to prevent more foreclosures.”

Earlier this month, a group of 28 California House Democrats dispatched a letter to the president urging him to appoint a new permanent FHFA director via recess appointment.

The Finance Agency under Acting Director Edward DeMarco has “consistently and erroneously interpreted its mandate” as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac’s regulator “far too narrowly” and consequently has failed to help struggling California homeowners.

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