Senate Democrats Want Housing Chief Pulte to Testify Soon (1)

Senate Democrats are pressing their Republican colleagues to summon the Trump administration’s top housing regulator to Capitol Hill for questioning about his turbulent tenure overseeing the nation’s $13 trillion mortgage market.

Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Bill Pulte should be called to testify before lawmakers no later than the end of January, the Democratic members of the Senate Banking Committee wrote in a letter Friday to Republican Chairman Tim Scott.

Among the topics they said they wanted to address: A recent spate of firings at the agency; Pulte’s move to appoint himself chairman of the boards of both Fannie ...