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.@worstall says #DoddFrank provision on conflict minerals is worst law of year. What say you? http://t.co/v043UJ1E
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Hensarling Announces Leadership Team for Financial Services Committee
Chairman-elect Jeb Hensarling today announced he has selected his leadership team for the Financial Services Committee of the 113th Congress. “I look forward to working alongside m...
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JOBS Act is Working to Boost Economy
The bipartisan JOBS Act, which originated in the Financial Services Committee and was passed by Congress earlier this year, is working to boost the economy. A report in the Charlot...
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Free checking being wiped out by Dodd-Frank’s burden
The following article was published this week on the website BankCreditNews.com: Free checking being wiped out by Dodd-Frank’s burden The average required minimum balance for free ...
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Hensarling Announces Leadership Team for Financial Services Committee
Chairman-elect Jeb Hensarling today announced he has selected his leadership team for the Financial Services Committee of the 113th Congress. “I look forward to working alongside m...
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Chairman Bachus: Harmful Volcker Rule a "Self-Inflicted Wound That Should be Repealed"
Financial Services Committee Chairman Spencer Bachus today delivered the following statement at a hearing on the Volcker Rule, a controversial provision of the Dodd-Frank Act desig...
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Bipartisan Financial Services Bills Gain Final Passage, Now on Their Way to the White House
Two important bipartisan bills that came out of the Financial Services Committee earlier this year are headed to the president’s desk for his signature. One bill, sponsored by Rep....
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House Passes Legislation to End Confusing, Unnecessary Notices
The House on Wednesday passed bipartisan legislation that eliminates confusion for consumers and ends duplicative and bureaucratic paperwork requirements for financial institutions...
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.@worstall says #DoddFrank provision on conflict minerals is worst law of year. What say you? http://t.co/v043UJ1E
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House passed legislation to avert the #FiscalCliff but the president has never called on Senate to act on those bills.
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Congrats to @RepHuizenga! His HR4014 is now law. Helps protect Americans' sensitive financial info
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House passed bill that averts #FiscalCliff. Now the Democrats who run Washington must act #SpendingIsTheProblem
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JOBS Act is Working to Boost Economy
The bipartisan JOBS Act, which originated in the Financial Services Committee and was passed by Congress earlier this year, is working to boost the economy. A report in the Charlot...
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We Listened: What Small Banks and Small Businesses Are Saying About the Dodd-Frank Act
Some Washington politicians and supposed media “fact checkers” have been falling over themselves the last few days busily defending the Dodd-Frank Act. But rather than rely on wha...
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Dodd-Frank Dilemma
By Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer I was more than a little annoyed recently during a committee hearing with a government official who seemed intent on defending an agency created by the t...
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Route 40 Tour
By Rep. Robert Hurt At a time when uncertainty from Washington has led us to nearly three-and-a-half years of more than 8 percent unemployment nationally, folks in Washington, D.C....
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Free checking being wiped out by Dodd-Frank’s burden
The following article was published this week on the website BankCreditNews.com: Free checking being wiped out by Dodd-Frank’s burden The average required minimum balance for free ...
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Wall Street Journal: A $447 Million Consumer Alert
Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Randy Neugebauer writes in today's edition of the Wall Street Journal about the lack of transparency and accountability at the Co...
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U.S. Financial Rules Panel Should Improve Transparency, GAO Says
(Bloomberg) -- A panel of U.S. regulators created to monitor financial stability faces challenges in achieving its mission of identifying risks and should improve its transparency,...
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U.S. financial risk council could use more sunlight: GAO
(Reuters) - The new U.S. financial risk council should publicly share more details about its closed-door meetings on emerging risks to markets, a congressional watchdog report has ...