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"Real Estate Settlement Procedure Act Regulations: Working Behind Closed Doors to Hurt Small Businesses and Consumers"

	ALTA® Press Release RESPA -- Improving the Process for Obtaining Mortgages OMB Letter to HUD (August 6, 2002) [pdf] Complete Audio (with Still Pictures of Speakers) from RESPA Hearing

Opening Statements:

• Chairman Manzullo
• Ranking Member Velazquez
  
Prepared Testimony:

Panel One

• The Honorable Alphonso Jackson
  Acting Secretary
  Department of Housing and Urban Development
• The Honorable John Graham, Ph.D
  Administrator, OIRA
  Office of Management and Budget

Panel Two

• Mr. Stanley Friedlander [pdf]
  President and CEO
  Continental Title Agency Corp. for the American Land Title Assn.
• Mr. Mark Savit
  President
  The Mortgage Center for the National Assn. of Mortgage Brokers
  Charleston, WV
  on behalf of Mr. Neill Fendly, Chairman, Gvt. Affairs Comm., NAMB
• Ms. Regina Lowrie
  President and CEO
  Gateway Funding Diversified Mortgage Corp. for the Mortgage Brokers Assn.
• Mr. Walter McDonald
  Owner
  Walter McDonald Real Estate
  Riverside, CA for the National Assn. of Realtors
• Mr. R. Michael Menzies, Sr.
  President and CEO
  Easton Bancorp, Inc. for the Independent Community Bankers of America