Today, the top Republican on the House Financial Services Committee, Patrick McHenry (NC-10), filed a discharge petition to force consideration of Republicans’ H.R. 3913, the Renter Protection Act, on the House floor. H.R. 3913 will expedite payments from the Emergency Rental Assistance (ERA) programs, remove the threat of eviction from COVID-impacted renters, and keep… Read more »
Today, the House Committee on Financial Services is finally holding a hearing on the Biden Administration’s mismanagement of the Emergency Rental Assistance (ERA) programs, following multiple requests from Committee Republicans. Instead of Democrat proposals that would make the programs worse, not better, the Committee should be focused on the commonsense reforms Republicans have been… Read more »
Today, the top Republican on the House Financial Services Committee, Patrick McHenry (NC-10), sent a letter to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen formally inviting her to testify before the Committee at Friday’s hearing on Emergency Rental Assistance (ERA). Secretary Yellen is long overdue to answer for the Treasury Department’s failure to administer $46 billion of COVID ERA funds.… Read more »
One week from today, Committee Democrats will hold a hearing to review “Reforms to Expedite Emergency Rental Assistance.” This long overdue examination of the failed Emergency Rental Assistance (ERA) program comes after months of work by Committee Republicans to provide relief to American families in need—met by months of inaction by House… Read more »
The top Republican on the House Financial Services Committee, Patrick McHenry (NC-10), issued the following statement in response to the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down the Biden Administration’s unconstitutional federal eviction moratorium:
“No one should be surprised by this decision. Republicans knew months ago the CDC had exceeded its authority. The… Read more »
Today, the top Republican on the House Financial Services Committee, Patrick McHenry (NC-10), released a statement following the resignation of Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) members Rebekah Jurata and Megan Zietsman. The departures follow Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Gary Gensler’s politically motivated move to… Read more »
The top Republican on the House Financial Services Committee, Patrick McHenry (NC-10), and the top Republican on the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, Tom Emmer (MN-06), sent a letter to the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) asking the agency to report to Congress on the impact of Democrats’ reckless new government spending proposals on our economic… Read more »
Today, the top Republican on the House Financial Services Committee, Patrick McHenry (NC-10), and the top Republican on the House Agriculture Committee, Glenn 'GT' Thompson (PA-15), sent a letter to Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Gary Gensler and Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Acting Chairman Rostin Behnam.
The letter directs the agencies to establish a… Read more »
Today, the top Republican on the House Financial Services Committee, Patrick McHenry (NC-10), released the following statement in response to Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chair Gary Gensler asking for jurisdiction of all exchanges of digital assets—not all of which are securities—in a letter to Senator Elizabeth Warren:
“Chairman Gensler’s latest move to ask Congress… Read more »
Today, Republicans on the House Financial Services Committee and Energy and Commerce Committee, led by Republican Leaders Patrick McHenry (NC-10) and Cathy McMorris-Rodgers (WA-05), sent a letterto Speaker Nancy Pelosi (CA-12). The letter criticizes President Biden’s extension of the unconstitutional eviction moratorium and condemns House Democrats’ inability to find a permanent… Read more »
