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Investigation of Housing and Foreclosure Crisis

March 16, 2014

Washington, D.C. (March 17, 2014)—Following the issuance by the Department of Justice's (DOJ) Inspector General of a report finding that the DOJ has not prioritized the investigation of mortgage fraud and has reported unreliable and inflated statistics regarding the scope of its prosecutorial efforts, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Member of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, and Rep.


February 12, 2014

Washington, DC (Feb. 12, 2014)— Senator Elizabeth Warren, Member of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, and Rep. Elijah E.


November 18, 2013

WASHINGTON, D.C. – In the absence of a long-promised public report, leading Democratic Members of Congress have called on federal regulators to disclose critically important information related to the Independent Foreclosure Review (IFR) process for 14 mortgage servicers and the $9.3 billion settlement that abruptly replaced it in January of this year.


May 1, 2013

Washington, DC —Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, released a new report from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) concluding that implementing principal reduction programs for underwater mortgages backed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac could save U.S.


April 25, 2013
Washington, D.C. (Apr. 25, 2013)—Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, announced the introduction of H.R. 1706, The Mortgage Settlement Monitoring Act of 2013, to create an Independent Monitor to oversee the distribution of funds paid by mortgage servicers for illegal foreclosures and other abuses against homeowners under their settlement agreement with federal regulators.

April 10, 2013
Washington, DC—Today, Senator Elizabeth Warren, Member of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, and Rep. Elijah E.

April 4, 2013

Washington, DC (April 4, 2013) – Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, released the following statement in response to a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report on banking regulators' review of foreclosure abuses:


March 25, 2013

Washington, D.C. -- Today, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Rep. Elijah E. Cummings (D-MD) sent a letter to Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and Comptroller of the Currency Thomas Curry accepting their proposal for a meeting to discuss the requests Warren and Cummings have made for documents relating to mortgage servicer abuses identified as part of the Independent Foreclosure Review.