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What's New: Call for Action: Higher Loan Limits Are Needed for FHA, Freddie Mac & Fannie Mae
Making the higher loan limits permanent will increase investor confidence and the availability of safe, fair, affordable mortgage credit for borrowers and those wishing to refinance. Higher loan limits will help stabilize mortgage markets and the economy as a whole.
Please contact your Senators today to ask them to make the higher loan limits permanent.
Small Business Health Plan - SHOP Act
Senator Durbin has crafted a new small business health plan (aka the SHOP Act ) that he will introduce on April 3rd. Charles McMillan will be participating in a press conference with Sens. Durbin (IL), Lincoln (AR), Snowe (ME) and Coleman (MN).
Find out more by reading the NAR Government Affairs Issue Summary - SHOP Act.
Do you have an interest, or experience in representing the REALTOR® community in political action?
NAR welcomes all members who are interested and motivated to participate in REALTOR® political activities. Perhaps you ran for office or are a current office holder in your local community, or you have expertise in running political campaigns? If so, we want to hear from you. We want to know what skills and experience exist in the field and find better ways to have you involved in our growing political programs. Please sign into Realtor.org to fill out our member political survey and we will be in touch.
2007 was a strong year for continued growth of our Grassroots program.
Last year we launched 143 advocacy campaigns targeted to federal,state and local officials on issues critical to the health of the real estate industry. That translates to 549,418 letters sent by our members on these Calls for Action to their elected officials at all levels of government.
At the federal level there were 14 Calls For Action, including our most recent end of the year victory on FHA. But there was much more. Read more about them in the 2007 Federal Legislative Accomplishments Report for more information.
Important Links:
NAR Realtor.org website home page
http://www.realtor.org 
Official source of United States Federal Legislative information
http://thomas.loc.gov
NAR Government Affairs contact information and the new state assignments
http://www.realtor.org/GAPublic.nsf/Pages/narstaffdirectory?OpenDocument
