News Topic: Jeb Hensarling

Democrats on the House and Senate banking committees are urging Republicans to hold hearings with Wells Fargo's top executives over its phony-accounts and force-placed insurance scandals. ... Read full article

House Republicans are ramping up their criticism of the Fed for making interest payments to member banks on excess reserves, and may have identified a way to counter claims that the payments are critical to monetary policy. ... Read full article

House lawmakers including Jeb Hensarling are preparing to move on a series of targeted regulatory relief bills in an effort to give Senate Banking Committee Chairman Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, more leeway when he tries to craft a relief measure. ... Read full article

House Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling continued the drumbeat of Republican attacks on Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Richard Cordray. ... Read full article

Housing finance reform discussions are heating up and there's a growing sense that legislation can be enacted sooner rather than later. Here's why. ... Read full article

The House Financial Services Committee approved several bills Thursday designed to boost the private flood insurance market. ... Read full article

For Democrats, the scandal is a prominent symbol of big-bank misbehavior, while Republicans want to use it to show the shortcomings of the CFPB. ... Read full article

Though James Clinger has been a top aide to House Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling, observers said the FDIC chair nominee's views may differ. ... Read full article

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., asked Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen on Monday to remove 12 Wells Fargo board members because of the fake-accounts scandal. ... Read full article

CFPB Director Richard Cordray took issue with a House Republican report that said he lied about his agency's role in investigating the Wells Fargo phony-accounts scandal. ... Read full article

Ahead of the House vote Thursday on the Financial Choice Act, the two parties were assailing each other as proxies for Wall Street and painting themselves as defenders of community banking and the consumer. ... Read full article

A GOP House Financial Services Committee report alleges that Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Richard Cordray lied about the bureau's investigation into the Wells Fargo scandal. ... Read full article

Ahead of a vote on a bill that would eliminate orderly liquidation authority, supporters of those powers are proposing changes to make it more palatable to conservatives. ... Read full article

A bill to overhaul the Dodd-Frank Act could get a vote in the full House as early as June 7. ... Read full article

Free-market advocates believe that consumers discipline wayward companies better than the government by eschewing their offerings, but switching products is not the same as punishing malefactors. ... Read full article

A Dodd-Frank overhaul bill faced trouble in the House because lawmakers did not want to vote on a provision to repeal debit swipe fee limits. ... Read full article

House financial services committee head agrees to drop swipe-fee repeal in order to save Financial Choice Act; Federal appeals court appears skeptical about declaring agency's makeup unconstitutional. ... Read full article

The Congressional Budget Office said only community banks would choose to hold higher capital in return for fewer rules while lowering its estimate of cost savings of eliminating new FDIC resolution powers. ... Read full article