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Senate confirms Pulte as top housing regulator, with market’s future at stake
The Senate on Thursday voted 56-43 to confirm Bill Pulte as the nation’s top housing regulator, putting him at the center of a fight over the future of two government-controlled companies that prop up half the residential mortgage market. As the director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency…
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Democrats are openly questioning whether they lost their last point of leverage by ceding to Republicans in the latest skirmish over funding the government…
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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer stepped Democrats away from the edge of a shutdown on Thursday — warning that repercussions of closing the federal government would be worse than the only viable alternative, passing the House GOP funding bill that many in Schumer’s party loathe. Schumer’s remarks — made first during a closed-door lunch with his colleagues Thursday and then from the Senate floor in a lengthy speech — are a significant indication that enough Senate Democrats will vote to advance the House GOP bill and avoid a shutdown that would start after midnight Friday…
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The 12-term Arizona Democrat had been under treatment for cancer…
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