The Senate confirmed Rep. Mel Watt (D., N.C.) to head the Federal Housing Finance Agency on Tuesday, giving the regulator of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac its first permanent director in more than ...

NPR's David Welna reports on the tragic death of Missouri Governor Mel Carnahan, the Democratic nominee running in a hotly-contested Senate seat against incumbent Republican John Ashcroft ...

The U.S. Senate held a procedural vote on Mel Watt’s nomination to lead the Federal Housing Finance Agency this morning. A majority of Senators approved the measure, essentially green lighting a ...

Democrats have taken advantage of their weakening of filibusters and muscled through the Senate President Barack ... senators confirmed Rep. Mel Watt to lead the Federal Housing Finance Agency ...

Members of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing & Urban Affairs met in executive secession to consider the nomination of Mel Watt, D-N.C., to head the Federal Housing Finance Agency ...

26, 2006, in Washington. The U.S. Senate on Tuesday voted 57 – 41 to confirm President Barack Obama’s nomination of Rep. Mel Watt (D-NC) to head the Federal Housing Finance Agency.

took to the Senate Floor to call on his colleagues to confirm Congressman Mel Watt as the Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency. This afternoon, Senate Banking Committee Chairman Tim ...