Two mortgage-related conferences scheduled in March were canceled due to concerns over coronavirus spread. 

However, the violations were, in part, due to an unexpected surge in applications following natural disasters, the bureau noted.

Justice Kavanaugh stuck mostly to his already-established views: The for-cause removal provision is unconstitutional, and should be severed from the statute. Many of Kavanaugh’s questions centered on the severability of the provision.

It is rare for Republicans, who have been critical of the bureau’s regulatory actions in the past, to praise the work of the consumer regulator.