More than 300 mortgage bankers converged on Congress this week to lobby for lawmakers’ support on a number of key pieces of legislation, including reform of government-sponsored enterprises, national uniform standards for subprime lending, REMIC modernization, FHA improvement, and extension of terrorism risk insurance. Participants at a pre-lobby policy conference hosted by the Mortgage Bankers Association in Washington, DC, said they were encouraged particularly by remarks made by Secretary of the Treasury John Snow