The committee vote was split along party lines, with Democrats saying that a lack of an FBI background check for Turner was a sticking point.

Picked to lead the housing agency under Trump, the former Texas House member tells senators there is a housing crisis. Democrats say they want to act only after a background check.

Moreno invited nominee Eric Scott Turner to visit Cleveland's housing projects which he said would be "sanctioned by the UN for human rights violations" if illegal immigrants were housed there.

Scott Turner, President-elect Donald Trump's nominee to become secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, is set to face his Senate confirmation hearing on Thursday. Turner, an ...

Scott Turner, the former NFL player who ran the White House Opportunity and Revitalization Council in Trump’s first term, appears at a hearing before the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban ...

While reactions largely fall within partisan lines, both parties appear poised to work with new HUD leadership to tackle housing challenges.

Scott Turner, the former NFL player who ran the White House Opportunity and Revitalization Council in Trump’s first term, appears at a hearing before the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban ...

Scott Turner, an official during the first Trump administration, said that the country was not building enough homes and that the housing department was “failing at its most basic mission.”

WASHINGTON – Former Texas state Rep. Scott Turner, picked by president-elect Donald Trump to lead the Department of Housing and Urban Development, told a Senate confirmation hearing on Thursday ...

There were sports analogies galore but few policy specifics during Scott Turner ’s confirmation hearing on Thursday to become housing secretary. Turner spoke before the Senate Banking, Housing ...

UN Ambassador nominee Elise Stefanik Rep ... an oil and gas company operating in Kurdistan, Iraq. Scott Turner is Trump's nominee to be secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Turner, who is set to oversee the country's public ...

If confirmed, the NFL veteran and former developer would run a department with a $70 billion budget and roughly 8,000 employees