Jeb Hensarling News

At church the other morning, the pastor's sermon was about community. She asked us to look at what kind of relationship we had with others in the community.

Legislation cleared the House on Friday that would place stricter requirements on the federal agency overseeing Wall Street to assess the costs and benefits of its regulations before they are issued.

Republican lawmakers on Thursday cited the recent Internal Revenue Service scandal as they urged the chief of the nation's securities watchdog not to require publicly-traded corporations disclose how all their money is spent on politics.

We haven't heard much lately about the Federal Housing Administration , the nation's oldest housing agency, but Octavio Nuiry of RealtyTrac writes under the headline: "Presidents 2014 Budget Foresees $943 Million FHA Bailout" that "The Obama administration's proposed fiscal budget for 2014 estimates that the cash-strapped Federal Housing ... (more)

Investors Continue to Drive Home Price Increase Pro Teck CEO Tom O'Grady discusses the April 2013 Home Value Forecast, featuring the Los Angeles, Atlanta and Warren, Mich.

May 13 - Today, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington released a new report, Rise of the Machines , detailing the growing political influence of high frequency traders in the nation's capital.

The Republican-controlled House is moving to put U.S. bondholders and people on Social Security at the front of the line to be paid if the government hits its borrowing limit and is unable to meet all of its obligations.

Nearly three years after Congress passed the Dodd-Frank financial law to limit risky activities on Wall Street, a series of bills could weaken regulation of derivatives - the exotic securities that helped fuel the crisis.

Jim Lardner is the communications director at Americans for Financial Reform , a coalition of more than 250 civil rights, consumer, labor, business, investor and other groups working for a strong, stable and ethical financial system.

There's at least one thing Congressional Republicans and Democrats agree on, and it's that medical debt is a problem.

Houston has become a bastion of Republican congressional fundraising, with GOP House candidates raising more than 17 times as much campaign cash from area donors as their Democratic counterparts in the first three months of 2013.

The White House is opposing a handful of bills that previously garnered bipartisan support that would alter new derivatives regulations in the Dodd-Frank financial reform law.

"It's never been easy for House Republicans to raise the debt limit." With that opening sentence, Jake Sherman and Steven Sloan of Politico provided air cover for the GOP's unprecedented--and dangerously irresponsible--d ebt ceiling hostage-taking . After all, Republicans in both houses of Congress had no problem raising the debt limit until ... (more)

The World Meteorological Organization's Statement on the Status of the Global Climate says that 2012 joined the ten previous years as one of the warmest - at ninth place - on record despite the cooling influence of a La NiA a episode early in the year.

On April 22, House Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling sent letters to CFPB Director Richard Cordray and CFPB General Counsel Meredith Fuchs stating that the House Financial Services Committee cannot allow Director Cordray to testify on the CFPB's semiannual report, as the Committee has in the past, because no nominee for CFPB ... (more)

Many Texas politicians swell with pride when speaking of their home state, but who relied the most on Lone Star citizens for their campaign dollars? Houston Democrats Sheila Jackson Lee and Gene Green are at the opposite end of relying on the Lone Star State for campaign fundraising, according to a Houston Chronicle analysis.

President Barack Obama acted Wednesday to fill two top regulatory posts, tapping a veteran Democratic congressman to lead the Federal Housing Finance Agency at a pivotal time for the housing market and naming a top campaign fundraiser and former lobbyist to head the Federal Communications Commission.

The big banks are bigger than ever, and despite an eye-catching Left-Right alliance to break them up, they're likely to stay big for the foreseeable future.

The Fed stood by its aggressive efforts to stimulate the economy and reduce unemployment.

The rate-setting Federal Open Market Committee concluded its May meeting by continuing to keep near zero its benchmark federal funds rate, an overnight rate that banks charge one another that influences the costs of borrowing for consumers and businesses alike.