Tag Archives: U.S. House of Representatives

The passage of HR 7735 will ease the barriers faced by veterans in obtaining an appraisal on a VA loan, evening the playing field in a competitive housing marketplace.

The House of Representatives passed HR 2543 by a vote of 215-207, legislation drafted to promote equity for underserved communities and increase access to safe and affordable financial services for all Americans.

Republicans have been trying to chip away at Dodd-Frank almost since the law was enacted nearly six years ago. But lately they have made a more intense push, and they won a victory in the House of Representatives recently.

S. 2036, also known as the Equity in Government Compensation Act of 2015,was initially scheduled to be voted on by the House in late October, but was postponed due to a hefty lineup of other legislation, including voting on a new Speaker of the House.

The U.S. House of Representatives voted on Thursday to pass an amendment eliminating the use of guarantee fees on mortgages backed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to fund a controversial $47 billion transportation bill known as H.R. 22, or the Developing a Reliable and Innovative Vision for the Economy (DRIVE) Act

Garrett and Mike Capuano (D-Massachusetts) introduced H.R. 2625, also known as the Bailout Prevention Act (BPA) of 2015 in response to the Fed's perceived failure to make any meaningful changes with regards to implementing certain provisions of Dodd-Frank that would limit the Fed's broad powers.

U.S. Representative Randy Neugebauer (R-Texas) on Wednesday urged his colleagues in the House to adopt legislation to ease the regulatory burdens on non-depository financial institutions in his opening statement of a House subcommittee hearing. In the Financial Services Subcommittee on Financial ...

The bill, better known as the Bureau Advisory Commission Transparency Act, was introduced by Representative Sean Duffy (R-Wisconsin) on March 4 with co-sponsors Randy Neugebauer (R-Texas) and Andy Barr (R-Kentucky).

The secondary reserve could also be referred to as an escrow account, where funds are held until a resolution is created on GSE reform. The bill would establish a secondary reserve by inserting the new language into the existing statutes.

Congressman Tom Reed (R-New York) introduced the Mortgage Forgiveness Tax Relief Act of 2015 (H.R. 1002) on February 13, and that bill is now being heard in the House Committee on Ways and Means. Two weeks later, Senators Debbie Stabenow (D-Michigan) and Dean Heller (R-Nevada) introduced a similar bill (S. 608), which is currently in the Senate Banking Committee. Both bills would extend relief to homeowners on forgiven mortgage debt – the remaining mortgage balance when a borrower sells a home in a short sale to avoid foreclosure