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Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling (R-TX) today announced the committee’s hearing schedule for the week of March 23rd. Tuesday, March 24 at 10:00 A.M.- A full committee hearing to review the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) agenda, operations, and Fiscal Year 2016 budget request.  SEC Chair Mary Jo White will testify. The hearing will take place in room… Read more »

Financial Service Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling (R-TX) today released the full roster of members who will be appointed to the committee’s Bipartisan Task Force to Investigate Terrorism Financing. “We are committed to making sure our government is doing everything possible to stop the Islamic State and other terrorists from using the global financial system to finance their acts of… Read more »

House Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling (R-TX) today announced the committee will create a bipartisan task force to work on improving U.S. efforts to choke off terrorist financing. “We are committed to making sure our government is doing everything possible to stop the Islamic State and other terrorists from using the global financial system to finance their acts of… 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 to examine the regulatory burden facing community banks and credit unions and the detrimental effect this burden has on consumers: I would say of all… 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 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 »