If someone from one EU member states dies in an EU state that is not their home country, inheritance issues would be dealt with under the law of the memberstate where they last had their "place of habitual residence".
Obama was accompanied on the Hill on Tuesday by Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, a former moderate GOP House member from the president's homestate of Illinois.
The group serves as the national office for a network of state and local home-building organizations that in total serve 250, 000 member companies and individuals.