WASHINGTON — During a Senate confirmation hearing today, the committee’s top Republican expressed concern about whether President Barack Obama’s nominee to lead the federal regulator that oversees Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will give in to political pressure for the two secondary lenders to write down principal. The committee’s top Democrat, however, endorsed the nominee.
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