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HUD in Limbo: Top Jobs Unconfirmed, Key Decisions Unmade
National Mortgage News, Aug. 18, 2017–Brian Collins (subscription)
“If you are a defender of the mission of HUD, you are going to want HUD to have a No. 2 chief operating officer like Pam [Patenaude] as deputy secretary and a general counsel in place so you can give Secretary [Ben] Carson more staff and more capacity to run the agency,” said Bill Killmer, senior vice president for legislative and political affairs at the Mortgage Bankers Association.