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  July 31, 2008 House Committee to Mark Up Credit Card Bill of Rights Legislation The House Financial Services Committee today will mark up the “Credit Card Bill of Rights Act of 2008” that would curb

  July 30, 2008 Bush Signs Housing Bill President Bush today signed a broad housing rescue package into law, ushering in a huge expansion of the federal government's role in the housing market, The

  July 29, 2008 Banks Act to Aid Mortgage Lending Four of the nation's largest banks will begin issuing a type of debt that the Bush administration has been advocating as a way to help reinvigorate

  July 28, 2008 Senate Approves Housing Bill, but Critics Say Law Unlikely to Prevent Most Foreclosures Even as a huge bipartisan majority in the Senate voted Saturday to send a sprawling housing bill

  July 25, 2008 Mortgage Crisis Hearing to Examine Mortgage Serving Practices The House Financial Services Committee will hold a hearing today entitled, 'A Review of Mortgage Servicing Practices and

July 24, 2008 Housing Bill Will Extend Federal Role In Markets A sprawling bill that reaches deep into the U.S. housing industry is close to becoming law in what will likely stand as the federal

  July 23, 2008 Lawmakers Reach Agreement on Housing-Assistance Package As the House of Representatives prepares to vote on the measure today, congressional leaders have hammered out a compromise on

  July 22, 2008 E.D.N.Y. Courthouse to be Named in Honor of Conrad Duberstein President Bush last week signed a bill honoring former ABI Director the late Chief Judge Conrad B. Duberstein by

  July 21, 2008 Americans Dig Deeper Into Debt Years of spending more than they earn have left a record number of Americans standing at the edge of financial distress as the debt they have amassed

  July 18, 2008 Filing Shines Light on Countrywide Loans An amended complaint filed Thursday by the California attorney general related to a suit against Countrywide Financial Corp. sheds new light on