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House Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling (R-TX) released the following statement regarding the Federal Housing Administration’s (FHA) failure to once again meet its capital ratio requirement.   “A year ago the FHA received its first-ever taxpayer-funded bailout and 12 months later the FHA has once again failed to meet its legally required minimum capital… Read more »

Investigation Reveals Export-Import Bank Exaggerating Help for Small Business Reuters news agency investigation finds Ex-Im lists “companies owned by billionaires” and “Japanese and European conglomerates” as “small businesses” Ex-Im’s list of “small businesses” includes one that has 53,000 employees “The errors make it difficult to identify exactly how much Ex-Im support… Read more »

Full Committee Examines Terrorist Financing and the Islamic State The Financial Services Committee examined ongoing U.S. efforts to stop the Islamic State (ISIL) and other terror groups from obtaining and deploying financial resources at a hearing on Thursday. “Unlike al Qaeda and other terror groups with which we are familiar and rely mainly on private donations and state sponsorship… Read more »

  CLICK HERE TO WATCH WASHINGTON- House Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling (R-TX) delivered the following opening statement at today’s full committee hearing on terrorist financing and the Islamic State:   “The 9/11 Commission estimated that al Qaeda’s brutal, evil attack on… Read more »

Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling (R-TX) released the following statement concerning a media report that the Export-Import Bank has mischaracterized “large companies and units of multinational conglomerates as small businesses”. “Rarely does Ex-Im miss a PR opportunity to claim that it primarily helps small business, but Ex-Im is again playing fast and loose with… Read more »

  CLICK HERE TO READ By Rep. Jeb Hensarling The threat posed by radical Islam once again commands the nation's attention at the same time Congress debates whether to re-extend a never-used terrorism-risk insurance program that was supposed to expire nine years ago. The 2002 Terrorism Risk… Read more »

On Thursday at 10:00 a.m. the Full Committee will hold a hearing to examine terrorist financing and the Islamic State. Read more »

Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling (R-TX) today announced the committee will hold a hearing next Thursday on “Terrorist Financing and The Islamic State” to examine U.S. efforts to disrupt the terror organization’s primary sources of funding. “The enormous wealth of the Islamic State, at least compared to other terrorist groups, compounds its brutality and enhances its… Read more »

Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling (R-TX) issued the following statement concerning the outlook for the 114th Congress: “The American people want a fresh start in Washington because they know Washington’s way of over-regulating, over-taxing and over-spending doesn’t work.  They have entrusted Republicans with a stronger legislative hand to address these problems,… Read more »

 CLICK HERE TO WATCH HORROR! SHOCK! DEVASTATION! Top-down regulations from Washington make it harder to have a growing economy on Main Street that creates good jobs.  Yet each year Washington churns out page after page of new regulations, rules and red tape in the Federal… Read more »