WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bob Corker, R-Tenn., a member of the Senate Banking Committee, today urged House and Senate negotiators not to use a 10-year tax increase on insurance for mortgages guaranteed by Fannie and Freddie Mac as a “piggy bank” to pay for a temporary extension of the payroll tax holiday through the end of the year. The two-month extension of the payroll tax holiday signed into law in December included an offset, opposed by Corker, that increases the guarantee fees paid by mortgage lenders for home loans backed by government-sponsored enterprises Fannie Mae a... [continue]

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February 1, 2012 - At a news conference in the U.S. Capitol, Senator Corker joined fellow Senate and House supporters of the Honest Budget Act to announce the introduction of the companion bill in the House of Representatives. View All Videos

Feb 3rd	–	Corker Statement on Air Force Planned Restructuring in Tennessee
Feb 1st	–	Corker Touts House Introduction of Honest Budget Act to Restore Discipline & Accountability to Spending
Jan 30th	–	Corker: Obama Administration’s Principal Write-down Proposal for Underwater Home Mortgages is “Terrible Public Policy,” Forces Tennesseans to Pay for Reckless Housing Practices in Other States
Jan 30th	–	Bipartisan Group of Senators to Introduce Legislation to Approve the Keystone XL Pipeline

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January 16, 2012 – Commemorating the Martin Luther King Day of Service, U.S. Senator Bob Corker greets firemen during the “Protecting and Serving Our Neighbors” initiative at Nashville Fire Department Station 19.

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