GOP Lawmakers Urge Leadership to Move GSE Regulatory Reform Bill to Senate Floor
May 11, 2006
Senate Republicans called on their top leaders to bring a bill reforming government-sponsored enterprise regulation to the Senate floor, citing concerns about continued taxpayer exposure to GSE risk if regulatory reform is not enacted this year. In a May 5 letter to Senate Majority Leader William Frist and Alabama Sen. Richard Shelby, chairman of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, 20 Republican senators urged both lawmakers to bring S. 190, the…