Jul 16, 2008 ... Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have also strategically given more contributions to  lawmakers currently sitting on committees that primarily regulate ... The others  have seats on the powerful Appropriations or Ways & Means committees, are  members of the congressional leadership or have run for president.
Along with the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae), Freddie  Mac buys mortgages on the secondary market, pools them, and sells them as a  mortgage-backed security to investors on the open market. This secondary  mortgage market increases the supply of money available for mortgage lending  and ...
Sep 30, 2008 ... If anyone wants to find the people responsible for the current financial meltdown,  they need to look no farther than the Democrats — Maxine Waters, Barney Frank  and their Fannie Mae pal Franklin Raines — to indentify the culprits. Mr.  Chairman, we do not have a crisis at Freddie Mac, and in particular at ...
Oct 6, 2008 ... In spring 2007, as House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank  likes to point out, the House did pass a bill in response. The Senate ... Maxine  Waters insisted, "we do not have a crisis at Freddie Mac, and in particular at  Fannie Mae, under the outstanding leadership of Mr. Frank Raines"?
Jan 6, 2010 ... The Senate Finance Committee he chairs oversees the lenders. Dodd had also  received more campaign contributions from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac than  any other lawmaker, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. Even with  help on the trail from President Obama and Vice President Joe ...
Barack Obama got more campaign contributions from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac "than any other member of Congress, except for the Democratic chairmen of the committee that oversees them."