Another member of the GOP has announced he won’t seek re-election in 2018. This time it’s Rep. Jeb Hensarling, who will retire from Congress at the end of his term as chairman of the House Financial Services Committee. According to news from CNBC, the 60-year-old...
Last week was not a good week to be the CFPB or Dodd-Frank financial reforms. The House Financial Services Committee voted 34 to 26 to repeal and replace it with the Financial Choice Act and sent it to the House floor for an up or down...
Representative Jeb Hensarling, the chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, is gearing up to move ahead with legislation that would greatly weaken the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. According to a report by The New York Times, citing a leaked memo by Hensarling, the Republican from...
May 09, 2017
Last week was not a good week to be the CFPB or Dodd-Frank financial reforms. The House Financial Services Committee voted 34 to 26 to repeal and replace it with the Financial Choice Act and sent it to the House floor for an up or down vote. The vote was taken along party lines and has […]
November 01, 2017
Another member of the GOP has announced he won’t seek re-election in 2018. This time it’s Rep. Jeb Hensarling, who will retire from Congress at the end of his term as chairman of the House Financial Services Committee. According to news from CNBC, the 60-year-old Republican from Texas said in a statement that he wanted […]
February 13, 2017
Representative Jeb Hensarling, the chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, is gearing up to move ahead with legislation that would greatly weaken the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. According to...