*Housing Secretary Ben Carson experienced somewhat of a brain fart during an exchange with House Democrat Katie Porter in which he appeared to mix up the common foreclosure term “REO” with Oreo ...

Porter: No, not an Oreo. An R-E-O. REO. Carson: Real estate ... Porter: What's the O stand for? Carson: Organization. Porter: Owned, real estate owned. That's what happens when a property goes to ...

WASHINGTON -- Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson appeared to think a freshman congresswoman was questioning him about Oreo cookies during a congressional hearing Tuesday, instead of ...

Secretary Ben Carson’s stumble over a real estate acronym that he heard as Oreo dominated the headlines of a congressional hearing Tuesday about the Department of Housing and Urban Development, but ...

Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson mixed up his real estate terms at a hearing of the House Financial Services Committee on Tuesday, mistaking "real estate owned," a foreclosure term, ...

When a freshman congresswoman asked U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson at a congressional hearing Tuesday whether he knew what the housing term "REO" was, Carson thought she was ...

Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson and Democratic Rep. Katie Porter are butting heads again, continuing their feud over -- at least on the surface -- cookies. Housing and Urban ...