Members of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Development cited a lack of flexibility to accommodate multiple types of users, a biased board of directors, and an unacceptable timeframe as their primary concerns about the common securitization platform. The bipartisan group of eight senators, led by Republican Chairman Bob Corker (TN), articulated their concerns surrounding the development and usage of the planned CSP in a letter addressed to Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Mel Watt. Primarily, they want to ensure that the CSP is designed to be just as usable and beneficial to the private sector as it is for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in order to avoid “the duopolistic tendencies of the past.”