FHA Commissioner Carol Galante this week expressed support for bipartisan reform legislation in the Senate that would provide the agency with tools it had requested to strengthen its finances and operation. Further discussion and clarification, however, may be needed with regard to certain provisions as well as issues that were not addressed in the draft bill, she said. Galante appeared as the sole witness at a hearing called by the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs to consider a draft of the FHA Solvency Act of 2013. The Senate bill is significantly narrower in scope than the FHA provisions included in a broader mortgage finance reform bill approved by the House Financial Services Committee this week. The Senate bill would help...