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  • Chairman Hensarling on NTU's "Speaking of Taxpayers" Podcast
    Aug 8, 2013 - Chairman Hensarling said taxpayers will “never ever, ever again be called upon to bail out Washington for irresponsible housing policies” if the Financial Services Committee’s sustainable housing finance reform bill becomes law. The Chairman’s comments came during a discussion of the bill – the Prot... More
  • The PATH to a Sustainable Housing Finance System for the 21st Century
    Aug 7, 2013 - House Republicans are hard at work reforming America’s housing finance system so it’s sustainable for home owners, respectful of hard-working taxpayers, and built to last. Today – more than five years after the financial crisis and three years since the passage of the Dodd-Frank Act – President Obam... More
  • Sunday Video Message | Rep. Scott Garrett
    Aug 4, 2013 - Capital Markets & GSEs Subcommittee Chairman Scott Garrett (Facebook | Twitter) delivers this week's Sunday Video Message -- our last before the August District Work Period -- on the PATH Act. More
  • Weekend Must Reads
    Aug 3, 2013 - Wall Street Journal | Just Another Bureaucracy The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau likes to portray itself as a virtuous, upstart and independent agency focused on helping the little guy. In reality it's just another big bureaucracy that rolls out thousands of pages of new rules every year, gen... More
  • Sunday Video Message | Rep. Shelley Moore Capito
    Jul 28, 2013 - Financial Institutions & Consumer Credit Subcommittee Chairman Shelley Moore Capito (Facebook | Twitter) delivers this week's Sunday Video Message on the PATH Act. The Protecting American Taxpayers and Homeowners Act was approved by the full committee on Wednesday. More
  • Washington Post: PATH Act Is A “Free Market Alternative To The Status Quo”
    Jul 25, 2013 - Editorial | July 25, 2013 THE POLITICS of housing finance reform are starting to get interesting. On Wednesday, the Republican-controlled House Financial Services Committee passed the Protecting American Taxpayers and Homeowners (PATH) Act, which would wind down Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and repla... More
  • ICYMI: Chairman Hensarling on Bloomberg’s Capitol Gains
    Jul 22, 2013 - “…if you don't get rid of the permanent, everyday government guarantee in the secondary mortgage market, I fear all you've done is put Fannie and Freddie in the Federal Witness Protection Program. Give them a facelift, give them new names, maybe they come out as Eddie and Annie. And yet they're rele... More
  • Sunday Video Message | Rep. Randy Neugebauer
    Jul 21, 2013 - Housing & Insurance Subcommittee Chairman Randy Neugebauer (Facebook | Twitter) delivers this week's Sunday Video Message on the PATH Act. The full committee will markup the PATH Act this Tuesday at 10:15 a.m. Read more about the act -- including how it sustains the 30-year fixed rate mortgage and ... More
  • Weekend Must Reads
    Jul 20, 2013 - AEI: FHA Watch – July 2013 The Protecting American Taxpayers and Homeowners (PATH) Act provides for comprehensive reform of the government’s role in housing finance. Heritage Foundation: Dodd-Frank at Year Three: Onerous and Costly July 21 marks the third anniversary of Dodd–Frank, Washington’s mass... More
  • PATH Act “Enables FHA to Play Expanded Role in Times of Crisis”
    Jul 19, 2013 - Rep. Ed Royce hit the nail on the head this week when he correctly pointed out that the PATH Act does not eliminate all government guarantees as some have incorrectly claimed. Courtesy of Rep. Royce’s office, below is his exchange with Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke this week on how the PATH ... More