Associations Now

JUNE 27, 2013

Members of the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee have introduced legislation that would shut down Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac over time and replace them with a privately capitalized home financing system geared toward protecting taxpayers from future economic crises. A number of finance associations support it.

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APRIL 23, 2013

Some legislators opposed to the measure have asked Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) to put the legislation through a Finance Committee review process before the chamber votes on it. The committee is led by Sen. (Currently, consumers are supposed to report such spending when filing their income taxes, but few do.)

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DECEMBER 22, 2014

After the White House voiced its opposition to that deal, outgoing Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden (D-OR) tried unsuccessfully to rally support for a two-year extension of most tax breaks that the committee had passed in the spring.

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