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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 »

Congressman Bill Huizenga joined us to talk about H.R. 1135, the Burdensome Data Collection Relief Act. The bill repeals Section 953(b) of the Dodd-Frank Act that requires all publicly traded companies to calculate and disclose the median annual total compensation of all employees and compare that number to the annual total compensation of the CEO in each SEC filing. While that… Read more »

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

Congressman Robert Hurt introduced two of the bills we considered in today's markup: H.R. 1564, the Audit Integrity and Job Protection Act and H.R. 1105, the Small Business Capital Access and Job Preservation Act. Both were reported favorably by the committee with bipartisan support.    The first bill, H.R. 1564, prohibits the Public Company Accounting… 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 »

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 »

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 »

House Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensalring (R-TX) delivered the following speech on the House floor today in support of H.R. 1256, the Swap Jurisdiction Certainty Act Read more »

Proponents of the GSE model of housing finance often assert that the costs of that model are justified because it provides benefits that no other countries enjoy. In fact, before the collapse of the GSEs in 2008, their supporters often argued that “American housing finance is the envy of the world.” But the reality is that for all of the resources and subsidies that the GSEs directed (we… Read more »

We’ll hold four hearings -- including full committee action on sustainable housing finance reform -- this week in addition to our three (and a half) bills on the House Floor. Be sure to check back here on the Bottom Line Blog -- and subscribe to our email lists  --  for updates throughout the week. Here’s what’s happening: We’re told on Tuesday the Rules Committee will meet… Read more »