Reaching Out to Our New Majority in Congress
It’s a new day for our U.S. Congress now that the Democrats have returned as the majority party after a dozen years of Republican leadership. But it’s not a new day for the legislative agenda that NAR works to advance on your behalf every day in Washington.
Thanks to your association’s highly regarded bipartisanship, NAR has deep and long-standing ties to members throughout Congress, on both sides of the aisle, and is looking forward to working with the new leadership in the House and Senate. It’s been this bipartisanship that’s enabled NAR, in session after session of Congress, to work with congressional leaders to get well more than a majority of the House and almost a quarter of the Senate to cosponsor the Community Choice in Real Estate Act, which would permanently ban national banking conglomerates from engaging in real estate brokerage and management.
And it’s enabled NAR to be a chief force in the long-overdue redevelopment of blighted and contaminated industrial areas that many of you are seeing in your communities today. Thanks to its ability to work across party lines, NAR helped secure legislation just a couple of years ago that led to the public-private cooperation that is driving today’s brownfields redevelopment efforts.
We have good reason to be optimistic about moving your legislative priorities ahead in the new Congress, and I look forward to enlisting your help in the months ahead to move our priorities through Congress at crucial times during the legislative process.
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