Hensarling Remarks to the Exchequer Club
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Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling (R-TX) Remarks to the Exchequer Club, Nov. 16, 2016 *As Prepared for Delivery Good afternoon, everyone. I’m Jeb Hensarling – and I approve this message. No, I think we’ve all had enough of that to last us for a while. Our long national nightmare is finally over: the 2016 campaign. Don’t worry; it will… CFPB proposal ‘a restraint on free speech’
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$400 million in cash stacked on wooden pallets carried in secret by an unmarked cargo plane on the same day four American prisoners were released from Iran. That’s what Chairman Sean Duffy and the Financial Services Oversight Subcommittee will be examining this Thursday, along with the impact of such a payment on terrorism financing. Watch and share this video and be sure… More Evidence Destroying the White House’s Spin on Dodd-Frank
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Just last week the White House was claiming that the crushing regulatory burden of the Dodd-Frank Act wasn’t harming community banks – not one bit. Community bankers, credit union leaders and small business owners told us that’s absolutely not true. Today’s report from Bloomberg (Headline: Bank Mergers Heading for Seven-Year High, Pushed by Costly Rules) once again exposes how feeble… Dear White House: Here's What Community Banks and Credit Unions Are Saying About Dodd-Frank
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Like Captain Renault, Americans are shocked – SHOCKED – that a report by the White House says a law supported by the White House doesn’t hurt community banks, no matter what. Well, over the last few years Republicans on the House Financial Services Committee have asked community bankers, credit union leaders, and small business operators what THEY think about the Dodd-Frank… Democrats: Big on Rhetoric, Short on Facts
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Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling just rolled out the Financial CHOICE Act, a plan to replace the failed Dodd-Frank Act and grow the economy for all Americans. And, like clockwork, left wing Democrats found the nearest possible microphone to trot out stale talking points about “Wall Street” and criticize the plan before they even knew what was in it. Just like… Arbitration vs. Litigation
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You’d be hard-pressed to find a consumer willing to pay more and wait longer only to receive a worse result. But that is what’s passing for consumer protection these days in the eyes of the CFPB and its new proposal to outlaw arbitration. For the non-lawyers in the room, arbitration is a form of dispute resolution where parties… 9 Seinfeld GIFs Help Explain the "Fiduciary" Rule
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1. The Administration just published a rule to “protect consumers” which sounds great at first… 2. But then we realized that it’s 1,000 pages long. 1-0-0-0 pages… 3. And it doesn’t actually protect consumers at all. 4. The truth is this rule limits consumers’ choices and will make financial advice more expensive and less available – which is just wrong. 5. American consumers are… 6 Photos from the Month of March
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The Debt Clock // Treasury Secretary Jack Lew testifies as the national debt continues to climb. The Hoosier // Rep. Luke Messer (R-IN) prepares to question a… We are BIG fans of Dodd-Frank.
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April Fools. We are not fans of Dodd-Frank and we’re doing something about it. Under Dodd-Frank (a.k.a. Washington’s Financial Control Law), Wall Street’s “too big to fail” banks have… Browse Documents by Date or Issue |
