Rep. Campbells Eminent Domain Legislation Likely Knocks the Legs Out From Under Controversial Plan
September 21, 2012
House Financial Services Committee member John Campbell, R-CA, last week introduced H.R. 6397, the Defending American Taxpayers From Abusive Government Takings Act, legislation that would prohibit the origination of taxpayer-guaranteed mortgages in jurisdictions of the country where the power of eminent domain would be used to seize mortgages. If Campbells legislation is enacted which is unlikely in the few days remaining in the legislative calendar of the 112th Congress, but probably will be resurrected in the 113th it could prove fatal to a controversial eminent domain mortgage seizure plan proposed in recent months by Mortgage Resolution Partners. MRPs plan would involve...