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House Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling (R-TX) will deliver a speech, “Dodd-Frank Five Years Later:  An America Less Free, Less Prosperous and Less Stable” on Tuesday, July 21 at 2:30 p.m. EDT at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) to mark the fifth anniversary of the Dodd-Frank Act being signed into law.  The Committee is examining the impact of… Read more »

WASHINGTON —The Financial Services Housing and Insurance Subcommittee held a hearing today to conduct oversight of the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) Public and Indian Housing programs. Despite 50 years of experience and over $1.6 trillion in annual appropriations, HUD remains overly bureaucratic, has failed to accomplish its mission, duplicates other state and… Read more »

Committee Explores Dodd-Frank's Impact on Financial Stability On Thursday, the Financial Services Committee held the first of a series of planned hearings on the impacts the Dodd-Frank Act has had in the five years since it was signed into law. Thursday’s hearing focused on whether Dodd-Frank has made the financial system more or less stable, and it comes on the heels of a report from… Read more »

Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling (R-TX) today announced the committee’s hearing schedule for the week of July 13th. Tuesday, July 14th at 10:00 A.M. – The Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee will hold a hearing on the Federal Reserve’s lack of transparency and accountability.  The Subcommittee will examine the Federal Reserve’s growing power since the… Read more »

 CLICK HERE TO WATCH Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling (R-TX) delivered the following opening statement at today’s hearing to examine whether the… Read more »

The House Financial Services Committee on Thursday began its series of hearings on the impact the Dodd-Frank Act has had on consumers, financial markets and the U.S. economy over the five years since President Obama signed it into law. Thursday’s hearing focused on how the massive 2,300-page law and its 400 new… Read more »

  The House Financial Services Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit Subcommittee held a hearing Wednesday to examine how and why bank holding companies are designated as “systemically important financial institutions” (SIFIs) under the Dodd-Frank Act. A bank holding company is a company that owns or controls one of more U.S. banks or… Read more »

WASHINGTON- Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling (R-TX) today announced the committee’s hearing schedule for the week of July 6th. Wednesday, July 8 at 1:00 P.M.- A Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit Subcommittee hearing to examine the designation and regulation of Bank Holding Company SIFIs. Witnesses: Harris Simmons, Chairman and Chief Executive… Read more »

July marks the fifth anniversary of the Dodd-Frank Act being signed into law, and Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling (R-TX) today announced the committee will hold three hearings beginning this week to examine how the 2,300-page law has left Americans with less freedom, less prosperity and a less stable financial future. “President Obama signed Dodd-Frank into law five… Read more »

  Dems’ Defense of CFPB: Let’s Talk About Something Else  “House Democrats decried a hearing Thursday on allegations of discrimination and retaliation by management at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau” “Democrats largely declined… Read more »