The offices of Senate Majority Leader John Thune and Speaker Mike Johnson are in active negotiations on a final bicameral bill to deregulate U.S. housing construction, according to four sources familiar with the process.
The leadership-level talks mark the first time legislators have worked on a bicameral basis toward a housing bill since last fall, when negotiations to include this legislation in the NDAA collapsed. We broke the news on our text platform this afternoon.
The goal for negotiations is to finalize text that can pass both chambers. Until now, the House and Senate have been sending amended versions of the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act back and forth without direct bicameral talks.
