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Article: NAR Optimistic about Legislative Outlook in 2007.
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- National Mortgage News
- Article date:
- November 20, 2006
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NEW ORLEANS -- The National Association of Realtors is psyched.
Arguably the country's most powerful housing lobby, the 1.2-million-member trade group sees the new Democrat-controlled Congress as a golden opportunity to pass legislation it and other industry organizations have long favored, even with a Republican president in the White House for at least two more years.
Housing has been presented with "an opportunity to move major legislation that we haven't had for years," Jerry Giovaniello, senior vice president of NAR's government affairs group, said at the association's annual convention here earlier this month.
"We haven't had a major ...