Requires the Director of the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (OFHEO) of the Department of Housing and Urban Development to terminate, suspend, modify, or otherwise lift: (1) the limitation on growth provision set forth in the Fannie Mae Consent Decree (the OFHEO order dated May 23, 2006, in the matter of the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae)); and (2) the voluntary temporary growth limitation described in the Freddie Mac Letter (dated July 31, 2006, from the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac) to the OFHEO Director).
Requires: (1) the Director to increase the mortgage portfolio limitations of both enterprises by at least 10%; and (2) to use of 85% of such increase for refinancing subprime mortgages at risk of foreclosure.
Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 485.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
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