judgments in mind they do fit the data quite well because you have mr watt as head of the federal housing finance agency one of those single director agencies it took. all of the time since mr james lockhart left the f f h. he was brought over from the office of federal housing enterprise oversight he left in two thousand and nine it's been until now with a with a one month period in between where there has been no nominee so it's about twelve hundred days and he's been in front of congress now for about thirty four days so it took a while but there is a nominee now. and i'm sorry with mary jo white also she's she's a chairperson it took about fifty days to nominate her and another fifty fifty to sixty days to confirm or so they both that with our data quite well what was the shortest process you got there the fastest so gary gensler and mary shapiro both were nominated immediately the day that president obama took office and they were both i believe they were both on the confirm the same week or even a couple days later. but this is just a shard in from the bipartisan policy center and you so mu

the first director of the federal housing finance agency, the regular of fannie mae and freddie mac is with us tonight. as the housing bubble expanded, jim warned of a systemic risk the to jesse's postwar financial system. and it was during his tenure as director of this program that the gse was placed under conservatorship 1746 days ago. jim, i think you for joining us. we look forward to your remarks. two of our commissioners will be moderating what we expect will be a lively panel discussion. rob is a former president of the bush 40 to administration. denmark has made an important contribution as well. they are the coleaders of the housing finance effort. in our first panel this morning, we will hear from the president of the urban institute, sarah ward tell. sarah and mark both bring tremendous intellectual firepower to the table and we look forward to their comments. in our second panel, we will hear from important players in the housing industry. kevin kelly, the first vice chairman of the board and the national association of homebuilders and dave stevens, the president and ceo

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housing finance. we will speak to the gym locker the federal finance agency. until then, a round table look at the week ahead in congress from this morning's "washington journal." host: this morning we will kickoff the reporter roundtable with a discussion of the week ahead on washington hill. we're joined by the federal fin. rebecca sinderbrand from "politico" ian swanson of "of the hill," over here on capitol hill. we will be taking your comments for the next hour, but let's immigration reform. where is the senate after a full week of debate on this? guest of the immigration bill is going to go to a bunch of amendments and pass out of the senate before the july 4 recess. we are expecting a really busy week on capitol hill. republicans and democrats trying to come to different agreements on the bill. you cannot say that it will be a complete certainty, putting pressure on the house once it goes to a lower share. host: here is a story talking about how big this bill is from "the washington times." not the biggest in recent years, but the immigration legislatio