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    CLICK HERE TO WATCH     Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling (R-TX) delivered the following opening statement at today’s full committee hearing with Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew: The committee welcomes back the Secretary for his annual report on the IMF and the larger… Read more »

Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling (R-TX) today announced the committee’s hearing schedule for the week of March 16: Tuesday, March 17th at 10:00 A.M.- A full committee hearing to receive the Annual Testimony of the Secretary of the Treasury on the State of the International Financial System. Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew will testify. The hearing will take place in room… Read more »

Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling (R-TX) issued the following statement on a Page 1 story in today’s Wall Street Journal about secret e-mails that reveal “an extraordinary level of cooperation” between the Export-Import Bank and Boeing, Ex-Im’s biggest beneficiary: “There’s been a lot of talk in Washington about ‘reforming’ the Export-Import Bank instead of letting… Read more »

Committee Pushes for Accountability and Transparency at the CFPB Tuesday’s hearing with Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Richard Cordray was another opportunity for Republicans to promote reforms to make the Bureau accountable and transparent to hardworking taxpayers. Republicans on the Committee are pushing for reforms to make the CFPB accountable and transparent because… Read more »

Wall Street Journal: Hensarling Wants Quicker Responses From ‘Stonewalling’ Agencies The head of a key U.S. House committee, frustrated by “stonewalling” by federal agencies, is ramping up pressure on government officials to quickly comply with requests for information. Mr. Hensarling said the CFPB has had an “abysmal record of… Read more »

  CLICK HERE TO WATCH Seems like a perfectly reasonable question to ask:  Who authorized the CFPB to renovate its rented Washington headquarters? It’s a question Republicans on the Financial Services Committee have been asking for some time – because the Federal Reserve’s Inspector General reports the… Read more »

  CLICK HERE TO WATCH Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling (R-TX) delivered the following opening statement at today’s full committee hearing with Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Richard Cordray: The CFPB… Read more »

Committee Pushes for Accountability and Transparency Reforms at the Federal Reserve Republicans at this week’s hearing with Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen raised questions about how much influence the executive branch holds over the central bank and argued in favor of accountability reforms to both protect the Fed’s independence in its conduct of monetary policy and to help give the… Read more »

Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling (R-TX) today announced the committee’s hearing schedule for the week of March 2: Tuesday, March 3rd at 2:30 P.M.- A full committee hearing to receive the Semi-Annual Report of the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection from Director Richard Cordray. The hearing will take place in room HVC-210 of the Capitol Visitor Center. Thursday,… Read more »

“If independence is an issue, than we really ought to examine the independence of the Fed from the executive branch of government.  That’s where the real threat is, not from the legislative branch”   CLICK HERE TO WATCH House Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling (R-TX) was interviewed on… Read more »