white house support from several republicans including senator richard burr and representative spencer baucus this is the second time obama has announced a nominee from north carolina to head the f.h. f.a. and she thousand and ten the president nominated joseph smith the north carolina commissioner of banks for the position but his confirmation failed that the republicans questions miss independence from the white house since the agency's creation in two thousand and eight and has yet to have a senate confirmed director and the post was nomination and contacts and confirmed he will take the helm from edward demarco the interim director since two thousand and nine. thousand courage to many groups to demand his removal because he has resisted efforts to help lower mortgage principal payments for bar workers and response demarco has cited his responsibility to return as much money as possible to the taxpayers for the bailout of fannie and freddie he eventually became so controversial that top white house officials made a promise during last year's presidential campaign to oust de marco and to ma