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Senate Democrats to seek support for foreclosure prevention bill this week


WASHINGTON, March 31, 2008 (Thomson Financial, Newstex) - Senate Democrats will try as early as tomorrow to win the support of a controversial proposed law they say will help the growing number of mortgage and Rechtsausschließungen calculated that publishes today From a plan by the Bush administration to increase regulation of the mortgage market are not affected by the current crisis.

“We are concerned by today,” said Senate Majority Leader and Democrat Harry Reid of Nevada, said at noon in a telephone conversation with journalists. “We believe the White House should focus on what must be done. ”
The bill has already been supported Democrats refused Republican Congress. She, as the Bush administration has so far rejected the idea of a solution to the crisis of the mortgage with the new programs and spending to say a proposal, they could increase the cost of mortgages for all borrowers.

This proposal would allow judges to rewrite the mortgage contracts in insolvency proceedings would be if we continue to make their mortgage payments owners. Republicans and lenders say, it would increase the strength of the lender the cost of borrowing for all borrowers.

The Senate Democrats, the so-called effects eviction Prevention Act, including the requirement for 200 mln usd more partitioning in consultancy, and if 10 bln usd in the new agency for financing housing for rent Agencies using bond yields to help refinance mortgages.

Reid of the Senate Banking Committee and Chairman Christopher Dodd of Connecticut, said these steps are necessary to the current crisis, and said that the regulation plan unveiled today by Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson would only be an impact on the future of ‘the mortgage industry.

Paulson recommended today broader authority of the Federal Reserve, a streamlining of federal authorities, and some oversight of the state-level regulation of mortgage brokers.

Mr. Reid said Senate Democrats are willing to work with the administration of these ideas, although the Administration’s proposal is already considered by many as an attempt, the need for a congress of the legislation. Dodd was quite hostile, “said Paulson’s plan” nothing to do “with the current crisis.

“To talk of revising regulations is a good idea, but it does not apply on the problems that we confrontation with are here,” he said.

Dodd added that Paulson is “entirely by the brand, as he said, the proposal establishes regulatory could have avoided the current crisis, and said, the problem is that the regulatory authorities of the Confederation is rejected, legal instruments needed to be against predatory credit operations.

Mr. Reid said he does not believe the Democrats and Republicans are far from each other than in the housing market, but the chance acknowledged that may not be enough support for accounts at the end of debate and a vote should be postponed, that the Republicans have already prevented from fact in the same bill.

If this happens again, “said Reid, the Democrats would not move to another subject, and rather than continue to find a way for something in the context of the crisis of the mortgage.

“Unless we stay on this case,” said Dr. Reid.

Later this week, Dodd supported this issue by convening a hearing to examine the modalities of the JP Morgan Chase Buyout considered by Bear Stearns (NYSE: BSC), because of their collapsed overexposure to the value of mortgage securities The value has fallen in the last several months.



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