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Washington, DC – Ranking Member Elijah E. Cummings today applauded a measure in the House Appropriations Fiscal Year 2012 Continuing Resolution (CR) that is similar to legislation he introduced to provide the U.S. Postal Service an extension on the payment it is statutorily required to make to prefund its retired employee health benefit fund. The CR extends by six weeks the date on which the Postal Service must make the payment, from September 30 to November 18.
Washington, DC - After a disappointing meeting with officials from the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) today, more than two dozen Members of Congress sent a letter to FHFA Acting Director Edward DeMarco requesting a meeting to discuss ways to implement President Obama's proposal to help the greatest number of American families avoid foreclosures.
Below is a copy of the letter.
September 15, 2011
Mr. Edward DeMarco
Acting Director
Federal Housing Finance Agency
1700 G Street, NW
Washington, D.C. 20551
WASHINGTON, D.C. — On Thursday, September 15, 2011, officials from the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) will meet with Members of Congress to discuss a plan to allow more American families to refinance their mortgages at historically low rates. The meeting comes after repeated requests from House Oversight Committee Ranking Member Elijah E.
At a hearing today of the House Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on Regulatory Affairs, Stimulus Oversight and Government Spending to discuss President Obama's jobs proposal, Subcommittee Ranking Member Dennis Kucinich entered a series of documents into the record in response to a staff report issued by the Majority on September 8, 2011 claiming that the entire stimulus failed.
Members ramp up pressure on FHFA to implement President's plan to boost economy by helping responsible homeowners refinance at historically low rates.
Washington, DC – Amid allegations that Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation sought to hack the telephones of September 11th victims and other U.S. citizens, Congressmen Bruce Braley (IA-01) and Ranking Member Elijah Cummings (MD-07), joined by six other Oversight Committee Members, called on Chairman Darrell Issa today to investigate the allegations.
Washington, DC – Ranking Member Elijah E. Cummings, joined by Representatives Norm Dicks, Ranking Member on the Appropriations Committee, Stephen F. Lynch, José Serrano, Gerald Connolly, Eleanor Holmes Norton and Danny K. Davis introduced legislation today to provide the U.S. Postal Service a 90-day extension on its pre-payment to the retired employee health benefit fund.
(Washington, DC) – Congressman Elijah E.