President Obama urged Congress in his State of the Union speech on January 24th to pass a plan to help millions of underwater home owners refinance into loans with historically low interest rates by charging banks a fee to help expedite the transactions."I'm sending this Congress a plan that gives every responsible homeowner the chance to save about $3,000 a year on their mortgage by refinancing at historically low rates," Obama announced. "No more red tape. No more runaround from the banks. A small fee on the largest financial institutions will ensure that it won't add to the deficit and will give those banks that were rescued by taxpayers a chance to repay a deficit of trust."
This isn't the first time Congress considered a proposal to charge banks a fee to help homeowners who remain underwater, but it's not clear from the details Obama provided how similar this plan is to the one Congress has previously looked at.
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