Earlier this month, President Obama nominated North Carolina Rep. Mel Watt to head up the Federal Housing Finance Authority. Here's a fun little nugge...
It has been a full five years since banks crashed the economy and more than a year since President Obama announced a special task force to investigate big bank crimes. Ever since, homeowners and community members have been fighting for fair and deserved relief and justice.
WASHINGTON, May 11 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama urged lawmakers on Saturday to back his nominee to oversee mortgage financiers Fannie Mae and ...
BOSTON -- The White House, long bedeviled by shortcomings in its housing programs, received two boosts Wednesday when its pick to lead a key housing a...
BOSTON -- President Barack Obama will nominate Mel Watt, a longtime Democratic congressman from North Carolina, to oversee government-controlled mortg...
Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley has run out of patience with the nation's top housing official. On Monday, after more than a year sp...
The Treasury Department is vigorously opposed to a House-passed measure that would open the Federal Reserve to an audit by the Government Accountabili...
A bipartisan effort to force transparency on the Federal Reserve is suddenly in jeopardy after a House Financial Services Committee member introduced ...
Members of Congress and the general public may not be told of "potential emerging threats to the stability of the financial system," thanks to a Thurs...
An unusual coalition of progressive economists, labor leaders, and bloggers has decided to fight back against a congressional amendment that would all...
U.S. lawmakers met with Cuba's foreign minister and laid flowers at a Havana memorial to slain U.S. civil rights leader Martin Luther King on Saturday...
Like a restricted country club that would rather die than change, the Republican Party is marginalizing itself for the sake of the white men who run it.
