Senate votes to ban certain bonuses for mortgage brokers, loan officers

The legislation prohibits payments for signing borrowers to higher interest rates and more onerous terms than those for which the borrowers were qualified. The U.S. Senate voted Wednesday to ban certain bonus payments to mortgage brokers and loan officers, cutting off what experts have called one of the key causes of the nation's mortgage meltdown.

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