Patricia Ann Millett
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Under new rules, Senate confirms Millett and Watt. "Under new rules requiring just a majority of senators to agree to proceed to final debate on most confirmation votes, senators voted 56 to 38 to confirm Patricia A. Millett to serve on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Later, senators confirmed Rep. Mel Watt (D-N.C.), 57 to 41, to serve as the next head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, which regulates mortgage giants Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and federal home loan banks." Ed O'Keefe in The Washington Post.
The Senate finally confirmed the most powerful man in housing. Here's what he might do. "The one definitive thing Watt did say was that he favors bringing private capital back into the housing finance system, on which he says there's "broad consensus," even though there's no consensus on how that ought to be done." Lydia DePillis in The Washington Post.
Many nominees, though, are still chilling in Washington purgatory. "For the past 900 days--nearly three years--Ken Kopocis has been languishing in the bureaucratic equivalent of Guantanamo Bay: The longtime congressional staffer is waiting to be confirmed as President Barack Obama's nominee to oversee clean water regulations at the Environmental Protection Agency. And for that entire time, the exceedingly low-profile pick ("whitest white bread" is how a pal describes him) has had his nomination held up by Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), who was concerned that Clean Water Act enforcement would slow big private-sector project."Glenn Thrush in Politico.
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