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  • Hensarling Opening Statement at Financial CHOICE Act Markup
    Sep 13, 2016 - Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling (R-TX) delivered the following opening statement at today's markup of H.R. 5983, the Financial CHOICE Act: It has been six years since the passage of Dodd-Frank. We were told it would lift our economy, but instead we are stuck in the slowest, weak... More
  • Hensarling Opening Statement at Financial CHOICE Act Hearing
    Jul 12, 2016 - Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling (R-TX) delivered the following opening statement at today’s full committee hearing focused on the capital requirements in the Financial CHOICE Act, the Republican alternative to the Dodd-Frank Act which will offer economic growth for all and bank... More
  • Hensarling Opening Statement at Monetary Policy Hearing
    Jun 22, 2016 - Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling (R-TX) delivered the following opening statement at today’s full committee hearing to receive the Monetary Policy and State of the Economy report from Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen: I have been struck by some of the headlines I’ve reviewed as... More
  • House Acts to Stop Obama Administration Red Tape
    Apr 28, 2016 - WASHINGTON – The House today approved a resolution to stop the Obama administration’s controversial “fiduciary” regulation that will restrict access to and raise the cost of financial planning for lower and middle income Americans. “Millions of Americans turn to financial advisors to help them plan... More
  • Committee Votes to End Dodd-Frank Bailout Fund, Place CFPB Spending on Budget
    Apr 13, 2016 - The House Financial Services Committee approved bills today that repeal the Dodd-Frank Act’s bailout fund for large, complex financial institutions and make the CFPB more accountable to taxpayers by putting its spending on budget. “When it comes to the resolution of these large, complex financial in... More
  • Hensarling: ‘Obamacare for Your IRA and 401(k)’ Will Hurt Low and Middle Income Families
    Apr 6, 2016 - WASHINGTON – Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling (R-TX) made the following statement after the Department of Labor issued the final version of its controversial “fiduciary” regulation that will harm millions of lower and middle income Americans by raising the costs of financial plan... More
  • Hensarling Opening Statement at International Financial System Hearing
    Mar 22, 2016 - WASHINGTON- Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling (R-TX) delivered the following opening statement at today’s full committee hearing with Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew: Before we begin today’s hearing, we need to keep in our thoughts and prayers the victims of this morning’s attacks i... More
  • Hensarling Calls for Accountability and Transparency at the Federal Reserve
    Nov 4, 2015 - Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling (R-TX) delivered the following opening statement at today’s hearing with Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen on the Fed’s supervision and regulation of the financial system: The Dodd-Frank Act requires the Federal Reserve’s Vice Chair of Supervisio... More
  • Committee Passes Reform Bills to Support Economic Growth and Increase Accountability of Washington Regulators
    Nov 4, 2015 - The Financial Services Committee approved several bills today designed to support greater economic growth and increase oversight and accountability of unchecked financial regulators. “Instead of ending ‘Too Big to Fail’ and taxpayer-funded Wall Street bailouts, the Dodd-Frank Act enshrines them into... More
  • Hensarling Opening Statement at Future of Housing in America Hearing
    Oct 22, 2015 - Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling (R-TX) delivered the following opening statement at today’s hearing to examine the Future of Housing in America and the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) during its 50th anniversary year: In launching the War on Poverty, President ... More