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Experts: Elections to Paralyze GSE Reform

January 27, 2012
Expect the run up to the fall elections to curb any meaningful results in terms of a legislative overhaul of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. However, industry insiders say it’s quite likely that lawmakers will work through the year to tweak various GSE reform proposals for the next Congress to take up in 2013.As Congress resumed this week following the holiday break, members returned to some 14 bills in the House advancing their way through committee – though only a couple are considered “comprehensive” reform legislation. Meanwhile, two bills filed at the end of last year in the Senate got the other chamber of Congress into the GSE reform debate after a long dormancy.
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