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  • McCarthy: Enterprise Is Strangled by Investment Rules
    Sep 21, 2011 - NOTE: Today, the Capital Markets and Government Sponsored Enterprises Committee held a legislative hearing on H.R. 2940, and four additional proposals, aimed at promoting small business capital formation by removing government roadblocks. By Rep. Kevin McCarthy Special to Roll Call Sept. 21, 2011, M... More
  • Witnesses Express Support For Schweikert’s Proposal To Help Small Businesses Obtain Financing
    Sep 20, 2011 - Tomorrow, the Capital Markets and Government Sponsored Enterprises Subcommittee will hold a hearing on five proposals designed to help small businesses access the capital markets for the financing they need to grow their companies and hire more workers. This hearing continues the Full Committee’s on... More
  • The SEC Budget
    Sep 14, 2011 - The SEC’s budget is three times larger than it was 10 years ago. Is its performance three times better? More
  • Committee looks to make SEC account for regulations’ consequences on jobs and the economy
    Sep 13, 2011 - With a growing regulatory burden weighing our economy down, President Obama’s executive order #13563 issued in January was welcomed news. That executive order requires government agencies to conduct cost-benefit analyses to ensure that the benefits of any rulemaking outweigh the costs. It also requi... More
  • Coverage of Field Hearing on Impact of Bank Examinations
    Aug 16, 2011 - Associated Press: Congressional panel investigates Ga. bank failures Published: Tuesday, August 16, 2011 Georgia holds the dubious distinction as the epicenter of bank failures in the aftermath of the Great Recession. But lawmakers who gathered at a congressional hearing Tuesday to investigate the c... More
  • Duffy in Wash Times: Dodd-Frank: One year later
    Jul 21, 2011 - Promises are unfulfilled while the costs are real By Rep. Sean Duffy It was one year ago today that President Obama signed the so-called "Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010." Like other signature pieces of legislation of this administration, the name can be misleading.... More
  • So much for certainty.
    Jul 18, 2011 - The failures of the Dodd-Frank Act continue to mount. Dodd-Frank Risk Panel Delays Create ‘Guessing Game’ By Cheyenne Hopkins and Ian Katz - Jul 18, 2011 Posted at Bloomberg.com A team of regulators charged with preventing another financial crisis is fending off criticism it’s moving too slowly to i... More
  • Committee Announces Schedule for Remainder of July
    Jul 15, 2011 - Financial Services Committee Chairman Spencer Bachus today announced the Committee’s schedule for the remainder of July. “Our Committee will continue promoting policies that encourage growth, investment and new jobs, and we will remain focused on our important oversight duties,” said Chairman Bachu... More
  • The Era of Big Government is Over…NOT!
    Jul 7, 2011 - The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (the government bureaucracy that’s supposed to “nudge” you to make decisions about your life that it deems are correct) doesn’t start operating until July 21. The President still has not even nominated someone to lead the agency yet. But it does have an offic... More
  • Committee Field Hearing Focused on Cybercrime
    Jun 30, 2011 - Yesterday, Financial Service Committee Chairman Spencer Bachus presided over a field hearing that highlighted the role of the National Computer Forensics Institute (NCFI) in Hoover, Alabama in fighting cybercrime. “The National Computer Forensics Institute is providing valuable training to the state... More