Ed Royce: “Can you deploy right now from Europe--because we have been a decade late in making these realignments?”

There have been numerous reports of senior executives at the GSEs meeting with Federal policymakers to advocate for being taken out of conservatorship.

I plan to introduce legislation with two objectives: The first, to explicitly prohibit Fannie and Freddie from engaging in lobbying activities while in conservatorship.

The Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act, which was authored by myself and Mr. Eliot Engel, empowered the administration with some of the most potent weapons yet.

These efforts build on previous U.S. sanctions as well as those by Canada, the European Union, and Switzerland.