Tuesday, May 1, 2012

U.S. housing regulator fires back in mortgage flap

(Reuters) - The regulator for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac fired back on Tuesday against claims from Democrats in Congress that he is standing in the way of letting the two U.S. housing finance giants forgive mortgage principal because of ideology.

In a sharply worded response to Elijah Cummings, the top Democrat on the House of Representatives Oversight Committee, Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Edward DeMarco defended his agency's position on loan write downs.

DeMarco has long maintained that allowing the two government-controlled mortgage firms to write down loan principal would needlessly drive up the costs of their taxpayer bailout, which has already reached more than $150 billion.

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