Members of the House Financial Services Committee this week approved a bill that would sus-pend Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac contributions to the Housing Trust Fund if the government-sponsored enterprises don’t pay dividends to Treasury. The panel approved the bill on a partisan vote of 33 to 27.

The CHLA repeated its plea that FHFA Director Mel Watt withhold GSE dividend payments to Treasury and allow Fannie and Freddie to build capital…

In a new blog posting, Investors Unite asks the basic question: “Are Fannie’s and Freddie’s foes driving GSE reform?”

The conforming mortgages in the deal were largely originated by correspondent lenders…

MBA: Fannie and Freddie should only undertake those activities that support secondary market liquidity…

The seller of the MSR package is looking for a final sale date of Jan. 31…

It was Freddie Mac’s second-largest month of the year...

Issuance of agency single-family MBS was up modestly in November, stemming a two-month slide in production, according to a new Inside MBS & ABS ranking and analysis.

Rep. Hensarling: “This means the government needs to be in the last-loss position, with multiple layers of private capital, as diversified as possible, stacked up before it.”

It appears that Congressional reform of the housing-finance system – and final resolution of Fan-nie Mae and Freddie Mac – is back on track with a key piece of good news for MBS investors: an ex-plicit federal guarantee on conventional product looks likely.