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One provision of the bill prohibits increases in guarantee fees charged by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to offset losses or reductions in revenue, or for any other purpose besides business functions for the GSEs or housing finance reform. The bill also prohibits the sale of Treasury-owned senior preferred shares in the GSEs without approval from Congress.

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac required a combined taxpayer bailout of $188 billion in 2008 after the government seized control of them. The two GSEs returned to profitability in 2012. The future of the two GSEs has been a hotly contested topic in Washington as well as in the rest of the housing industry. Both parties appear to want to wind down the FHFA's conservatorship of the two, but cannot agree on what, if anything, should replace them as well as what role the government should play in housing, if any.

Representative Richard Shelby (R-Alabama), Chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, expressed the need for more oversight and accountability from the Federal Reserve during a full committee hearing earlier this week.

U.S. Senator Richard Shelby (R-Alabama), who was elected chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs earlier this month, has announced the members of the five banking subcommittees for the 114th Congress, according to an announcement from the SBC.

In a widely anticipated move, U.S. Senator Richard Shelby (R-Alabama) was named Chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs for the 114th Congress, according to an announcement from Shelby's website Thursday.

U.S. Senator Richard Shelby, R-Alabama, is expected to become the new chair of the Senate's Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee following Tuesday's election in which Republicans retained control of the House and won enough seats to gain a majority in the Senate as well.