News List

  • Weekly Rundown
    Dec 2, 2013 - The House is in session Monday through Thursday this week and will consider one Financial Services Committee bill. Be sure to check back here on the Bottom Line Blog -- and sign up for our email updates -- for additional information throughout the week. Here's whats happening: On Wednesday at 10 a.... More
  • Chairman Hensarling Op-Ed: Giving the FHA a new lease on life
    Nov 27, 2013 - Chairman Hensarling Op-Ed | November 27, 2013 Persistently weak job growth, higher taxes on families and record-breaking government debt are the hallmarks of the failed economic experiment known as Obamanomics. It is an experiment made up of many policies, but its core revolves around one central b... More
  • Sunday Video Message | Rep. Robert Pittenger
    Nov 24, 2013 - Congressman Robert Pittenger (Twitter | Facebook) delivers this week's Sunday Video Message on the dangerously unaccountable Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). The committee approved six bills to reform the CFPB last week. More
  • Committee Approves Consumer Protection Bills that Bring Accountability, Oversight and Transparency to the CFPB
    Nov 21, 2013 - The House Financial Services Committee today passed six bills to bring oversight, accountability and transparency to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), including bills to protect consumer privacy. “These are modest, common-sense bills that bring a modicum of accountability and transpar... More
  • Financial Times: Winding down Fannie and Freddie
    Nov 21, 2013 - Editorial | November 20, 2013 It has been five years since Lehman Brothers collapsed and longer since the US subprime bubble burst. Yet plans to reform Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac – the government-sponsored behemoths that underwrite the US housing market – are little nearer to completion. Both Repub... More
  • Chairman Hensarling’s Statement on Bringing Accountability and Transparency to the CFPB
    Nov 19, 2013 - Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling (R-TX) delivered the following opening statement at today’s full committee markup of Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) reform legislation: Today our committee will take up six different bills dealing with the CFPB. These are modest, comm... More
  • Weekly Rundown
    Nov 18, 2013 - The House is in session Monday through Thursday this week. Be sure to check back here on the Bottom Line Blog -- and sign up for our email updates -- for committee specific information as the week progresses. Here's what's happening: On Tuesday morning at 10 a.m., the Oversight & Investigations Sub... More
  • Sunday Video Message | Rep. Marlin Stutzman
    Nov 17, 2013 - Congressman Marlin Stutzman (Twitter | Facebook) delivers this week's Sunday Video Message on the committee's review of the Federal Reserve's "dual mandate." More
  • Chairman Hensarling Statement on CFTC Cross-Border Swaps Announcement
    Nov 15, 2013 - Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling (R-TX) issued the following statement about the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) staff announcement related to cross-border swaps transactions: “At a time millions of Americans still can’t find a job, this surprise decision made late Th... More
  • Weekend Must Reads
    Nov 10, 2013 - Wall Street Journal | Affordable Housing Is What You Can Afford American Action Forum President Douglas Holtz-Eakin on a Senate housing “reform” bill that includes provisions for politically motivated lending. Baltimore Sun | Consumer protection bureau fails to protect A report by a Bipartisan Poli... More