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Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling (R-TX) delivered the following opening statement at today's full committee hearing examining how the Dodd-Frank Act could result in more taxpayer-funded bailouts:    “Not long after the financial crisis arose in 2008, we heard the cry ‘Occupy Wall Street!’ Most Americans have never wanted to occupy Wall Street, they just… Read more »

Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling (R-TX) delivered the following opening statement at today's Housing and Insurance Subcommittee hearing on the Department of Housing and Urban Development's (HUD) Moving-to-Work Program Read more »

House Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling (R-TX) welcomed the United States Supreme Court’s announcement on Monday of its decision to hear a case over the validity of President Obama’s purported “recess appointments” of three individuals to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) on January 4, 2012. Read more »

Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling (R-TX) delivered the following opening statement today full committee markup. Read more »

The House Financial Services Committee today passed four bills -- all with significant bipartisan support -- to reduce the red tape burden on job creators at a time when excessive and unnecessary regulations are hurting the nation’s economy. Read more »

Changes to mortgage lending mandated by the Dodd-Frank Act will make it harder for Americans to own a home and undermine an economic recovery, witnesses told members of the Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit Subcommittee at a hearing today. Read more »

The Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee highlighted the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) radical structure at a hearing today, and members continued to express concern that the agency operates without basic oversight and accountability. Read more »

Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling (R-TX) today announced the committee’s schedule of hearings and markups for the last two weeks of June. Read more »

Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling (R-TX) delivered the following opening statement at today's Monetary Policy & Trade Subcommittee Hearing assessing reforms at the Export-Import Bank Read more »

House Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling (R-TX) delivered the following opening statement at today’s full committee hearing titled “Beyond GSEs: Examples of Successful Housing Finance Models without Explicit Government Guarantees.” Read more »