{"id":4244,"date":"2022-02-15T14:18:28","date_gmt":"2022-02-15T19:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalfairhousing.org\/?p=4244"},"modified":"2022-02-16T19:28:31","modified_gmt":"2022-02-17T00:28:31","slug":"urgent-senators-threatening-to-stop-federal-reserve-board-and-fhfa-nominee-confirmations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalfairhousing.org\/urgent-senators-threatening-to-stop-federal-reserve-board-and-fhfa-nominee-confirmations\/","title":{"rendered":"URGENT \u2013 Senators Threatening to Stop Federal Reserve Board and FHFA Nominee Confirmations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"content-wrap-item post__heading post__heading-undefined wp-block-heading\">Contact your Senators NOW!<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"content-wrap-item post__paragraph\">Dear Friends,&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"content-wrap-item post__paragraph\">News publications are reporting that Senate Banking Committee Ranking Member Patrick Toomey (R-PA) is threatening to have the Republicans on the Committee boycott today\u2019s scheduled markup of the nominations of the five nominees to the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve Board, as well as the nomination of Sandra Thompson to lead the Federal Housing Finance Agency. Without a quorum, the Committee cannot proceed with today\u2019s markup.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"content-wrap-item post__paragraph\">The Federal Reserve Board of Governors is instrumental in ensuring the economy reaches maximum employment and keeping inflation in check, which are important priorities for families seeking an equitable recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. &nbsp;The Federal Housing Finance Agency is essential to providing liquidity in the mortgage market and expanding access to mortgage credit for people of color and other marginalized consumers. &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"content-wrap-item post__paragraph\">Please call your Senators NOW and urge them to advance all five of the nominees for the Federal Reserve Board of Governors (Drs. Cook and Jefferson and Governors Bloom Raskin, Brainard, and Powell) and Acting Director Sandra Thompson to lead the Federal Housing Finance Agency without delay. &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"content-wrap-item post__heading post__heading-undefined wp-block-heading\"><strong>Instructions on how to contact your Senators:&nbsp;<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"content-wrap-item post__list post__list-undefined wp-block-list\" value=\"<li class=&quot;post__list-item is-item-undefined&quot;&gt;Call the U.S. Capitol Switchboard at 202-224-3121.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li&gt;\"><li>Call the U.S. Capitol Switchboard at 202-224-3121.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<ol start=\"2\" class=\"content-wrap-item post__list post__list-undefined wp-block-list\" value=\"<li class=&quot;post__list-item is-item-undefined&quot;&gt;Ask for your Senator office, and then ask to be connected to the staffer who handles banking issues in that office.&nbsp;<\/li&gt;\"><li>Ask for your Senator office, and then ask to be connected to the staffer who handles banking issues in that office.&nbsp;<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<ol start=\"3\" class=\"content-wrap-item post__list post__list-undefined wp-block-list\" value=\"<li class=&quot;post__list-item is-item-undefined&quot;&gt;Tell the staff in that office that it is imperative that the Senator do everything they can to advance the current Federal Reserve Board of Governors and Federal Housing Finance Agency nominees immediately at today\u2019s markup.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li&gt;\"><li>Tell the staff in that office that it is imperative that the Senator do everything they can to advance the current Federal Reserve Board of Governors and Federal Housing Finance Agency nominees immediately at today\u2019s markup.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"content-wrap-item post__paragraph\">Many thanks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"content-wrap-item post__paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"content-wrap-item post__paragraph has-text-align-center\" id=\"block-4e298ba2-8b6b-44af-9e04-faa263658fd3\">###<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"content-wrap-item post__paragraph has-text-align-center\" id=\"block-43d93481-0998-4f06-a3ae-2f8527d1ede9\"><strong><em><strong><em><strong><em><strong><em>The National Fair Housing Alliance (NFHA)<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/strong><em><em>is the country\u2019s only national civil rights organization dedicated solely to eliminating all forms of housing and lending discrimination and ensuring equal opportunities for all people. As the trade association for over 170 fair housing and justice-centered organizations throughout the U.S. and its territories, NFHA works to dismantle longstanding barriers to equity and build diverse, inclusive, well-resourced communities.<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"content-wrap-item post__paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contact your Senators NOW! Dear Friends,&nbsp;&nbsp; News publications are reporting that Senate Banking Committee Ranking Member Patrick Toomey (R-PA) is threatening to have the Republicans on the Committee boycott today\u2019s scheduled markup of the nominations of the five nominees to the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve Board, as well as the nomination of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":433,"featured_media":2853,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-media","category-nfha-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>URGENT \u2013 Senators Threatening to Stop Federal Reserve Board and FHFA Nominee Confirmations - NFHA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Contact your Senators NOW! 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