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  • Huizenga: Dodd-Frank has failed Michigan residents
    Apr 23, 2017 - The economic downturn in 2008 cost Michiganians their jobs, families their savings, and some even their homes. In response to this seismic event, Democrats in Congress passed and President Obama signed the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act into law. According to its supporte... More
  • Kustoff: Dodd-Frank Created Two Americas
    Apr 13, 2017 - For seven years now, the Dodd-Frank Act has stifled the American Dream — for half of the country. Let me explain. After the 2008 financial crisis, the economy was in dire straits. Washington responded with the Dodd-Frank Act, a sweeping overhaul of the American financial regulatory system, implement... More
  • Americans need protection from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
    Apr 12, 2017 - By Chairman Jeb Hensarling and Rep. Roger Williams Few Americans are familiar with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, but it is the most powerful and least accountable Washington bureaucracy in history and a perfect example of the political left’s dangerous belief that the ends always justif... More
  • Hill: CFPB must be reined in
    Apr 10, 2017 - By Congressman French Hill (R-AR) Washington, D.C.'s idea of government may have changed, but the American people's has not. This is a significant observation I have made since returning to Washington after living and working for 25 years in central Arkansas. In Washington, accountability has gone f... More
  • Politico Pro: CFPB was late to Wells Fargo probe, letters suggest
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  • Unconstitutional CFPB ‘Asleep at the Wheel’ on Wells Fargo
    Apr 6, 2017 - Los Angeles Times – Republicans Attack Consumer Financial Watchdog as They Push For His Firing Part of the GOP attack focused on the Wells Fargo case as they argued the watchdog agency “was asleep at the wheel” in identifying that the bank was creating unauthorized accounts and only got involved aft... More
  • Washington's Worst Government Agency: The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
    Apr 3, 2017 - Independent Journal Review By: Richard Berman Washington, D.C. is known for many things: Majestic monuments, smoky steakhouses, and wasteful bureaucracy at its worst. From the Environmental Protection Agency's crippling regulations to the Pentagon's $125 billion boondoggle, the swamp is full of crit... More
  • Time to Hold the CFPB Accountable
    Apr 3, 2017 - Since I was first elected to Congress, I have fought to hold government agencies and Washington bureaucrats more accountable to Floridians and all Americans. Unfortunately, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) continues to operate in a manner unaccountable to Congress, the president and ... More
  • “Business as Usual at the CFPB Is Not Good for Consumers”
    Mar 31, 2017 - As the following article from Real Clear Markets points out, the unaccountable and unconstitutional CFPB shows utter contempt for constitutional due process rights and tramples on the rule of law. This abuse may grab headlines, but it does not achieve justice and ultimately harms the very consumers... More
  • ICYMI: How We’ll Stop a Rogue Federal Agency
    Feb 9, 2017 - By: Jeb Hensarling Wall Street Journal February 9, 2017 The Obama presidency placed no greater burden on America’s growth potential than the avalanche of regulations that smother the U.S. economic system. The most destructive and dangerous of the new regulatory bureaucracies created by the Democrat-... More