News List

  • Hensarling Opening Statement at Federal Reserve Oversight Hearing
    Sep 28, 2016 - WASHINGTON- Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling (R-TX) delivered the following opening statement at today’s full committee hearing with Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen on the Semi-Annual Testimony on the Federal Reserve’s Supervision and Regulation of the Financial System: As we... More
  • Housing Subcommittee Discusses Potential Covered Agreement with the EU
    Sep 28, 2016 - WASHINGTON – Today, the Housing and Insurance subcommittee held a hearing to examine international factors affecting domestic insurance markets. Subcommittee members questioned hearing witnesses on the various international regulatory standards being considered by the G-20, the Financial Stability B... More
  • Subcommittee Examines Legislative Proposals to Address Consumer Access to Banking
    Sep 27, 2016 - WASHINGTON – Today, the Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit Subcommittee held a hearing to review several legislative proposals designed to help more consumers access banking services. “Today’s hearing is important to consider legislation that can have a tremendous impact on consumer credit a... More
  • Subcommittee Examines the Financial Stability Board
    Sep 27, 2016 - WASHINGTON – The Monetary Policy and Trade Subcommittee held a hearing to examine concerns with the work and transparency of the Financial Stability Board (FSB), an international organization largely controlled by European central bankers and financial regulators. “It is very troubling that American... More
  • WEEK IN REVIEW
    Sep 23, 2016 - Treasury Secretary Faces ‘Aggressive Questioning’ From Committee Republicans on the Financial Services Committee confronted Treasury Secretary Jake Lew at Thursday’s hearing about the Obama Administration’s decision to pay cash to Iran, labeled by the U.S. State Department as the “foremost state spo... More
  • Media Advisory: Committee Hearing Schedule for the Week of September 26
    Sep 23, 2016 - WASHINGTON – Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling (R-TX) today announced the committee’s schedule for the week of Sept. 26: Tuesday, Sept. 27 at 10:00 a.m. – The Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit will hold a hearing entitled “Examining Legislative Proposals t... More
  • Hensarling Opening Statement at FSOC Oversight Hearing
    Sep 22, 2016 - Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling (R-TX) delivered the following opening statement at today’s full committee hearing with Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew on the Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC): With today being the official start of Fall, it’s disappointing that the Fin... More
  • ICYMI: Hensarling Addresses Wells-Fargo on CNBC
    Sep 22, 2016 - “What appears to be obvious is that two million Americans just got ripped off by their bank and they got let down by their government. And so I’m not sure that Mr. Stumpf had all the answers. We’re giving him now, he’s got over a full week to prepare, to go back, to do his homework…We have demanded... More
  • Subcommittee Conducts Regulatory Oversight
    Sep 22, 2016 - WASHINGTON – The Subcommittee on Capital Markets and Government Sponsored Enterprises today held an oversight hearing to examine the agendas of financial regulators, self-regulatory organizations (SROs) and standards-setters for accounting, auditing and municipal securities. “Since 2011, one of the ... More
  • Hensarling: Administration Approval of Commercial Aircraft Sales to Iran Outrageous
    Sep 21, 2016 - House Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling (R-TX) made the following comments upon news that the U.S. Treasury Department approved licenses that allow companies to sell commercial aircraft to Iran Air – the state owned national carrier of Iran. “It baffles me how this administration ... More