News List

  • Chairman Hensarling Opening Statement at Hearing on CFPB Semi-Annual Report
    Sep 12, 2013 - WASHINGTON -- Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling (R-TX) delivered the following opening statement at today's full committee hearing on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's Semi-Annual Report with Director Richard Cordray: “This morning we welcome Director Richard Cordray, Dir... More
  • The PATH to a Sustainable Housing Finance System for the 21st Century
    Aug 7, 2013 - House Republicans are hard at work reforming America’s housing finance system so it’s sustainable for home owners, respectful of hard-working taxpayers, and built to last. Today – more than five years after the financial crisis and three years since the passage of the Dodd-Frank Act – President Obam... More
  • Sunday Video Message | Rep. Scott Garrett
    Aug 4, 2013 - Capital Markets & GSEs Subcommittee Chairman Scott Garrett (Facebook | Twitter) delivers this week's Sunday Video Message -- our last before the August District Work Period -- on the PATH Act. More
  • Financial Services, Oversight Looking at CFPB Employees Profiting from Mortgage Rules
    Aug 1, 2013 - House Financial Services Chairman Jeb Henserling, R-Texas and House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., sent a letter to Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) Director Richard Cordray about concerns that senior employees have left CFPB in order to profit ... More
  • Sunday Video Message | Rep. Shelley Moore Capito
    Jul 28, 2013 - Financial Institutions & Consumer Credit Subcommittee Chairman Shelley Moore Capito (Facebook | Twitter) delivers this week's Sunday Video Message on the PATH Act. The Protecting American Taxpayers and Homeowners Act was approved by the full committee on Wednesday. More
  • ICYMI: Chairman Hensarling on Bloomberg’s Capitol Gains
    Jul 22, 2013 - “…if you don't get rid of the permanent, everyday government guarantee in the secondary mortgage market, I fear all you've done is put Fannie and Freddie in the Federal Witness Protection Program. Give them a facelift, give them new names, maybe they come out as Eddie and Annie. And yet they're rele... More
  • Sunday Video Message | Rep. Randy Neugebauer
    Jul 21, 2013 - Housing & Insurance Subcommittee Chairman Randy Neugebauer (Facebook | Twitter) delivers this week's Sunday Video Message on the PATH Act. The full committee will markup the PATH Act this Tuesday at 10:15 a.m. Read more about the act -- including how it sustains the 30-year fixed rate mortgage and ... More
  • Chairman Hensarling Opening Statement at PATH Act Hearing
    Jul 18, 2013 - Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling (R-TX) delivered the following opening statement at today's full committee hearing on the Protecting American Taxpayers and Homeowners Act: “Today, the Financial Services Committee meets in its 12th hearing over the last six months on the need to ... More
  • A Reminder of the Corruption That Helped Birth the Biggest Bailout in History
    Jul 18, 2013 - “Fannie Mae will never impose a cost on the American taxpayer…” – James A. Johnson, Chief Executive Officer of Fannie Mae, testifying before the House of Representatives, April 17, 1996 “Under the direction of James A. Johnson, Fannie Mae’s calculating and politically connected chief executive, the ... More
  • Fact Finding: 11 Hearings on Sustainable Housing Finance Reforms in 2013
    Jul 17, 2013 - UPDATE: After releasing details of the PATH Act, the full committee held a hearing entitled “A Legislative Proposal to Protect American Taxpayers and Homeowners by Creating a Sustainable Housing Finance System” on July 17, 2013, bringing the total to 12 hearing and more than 50 witnesses on this sub... More