House Financial Services Committee

Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA), the ranking member on the House Financial Services Committee, said she plans to give back the campaign donations she received from the political action committee for Silicon Valley Bank.

House Republicans kicked off their first hearings of the year addressing the threat to America from China, with Democrats warning of racism.

The Republican-controlled House Financial Services Committee is taking heat for listing “diversity and inclusion” in the finance and housing industries as part of its agenda, but Republicans on the committee are standing by the agenda and rejecting any notion of it being “woke.”

John Ray, the current CEO of FTX, testified Tuesday that the financial scandal at the crypto-exchange company is “plain old embezzlement.”

Democrat Mega-donor and FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) was arrested in the Bahamas on Monday, just hours before he was scheduled to testify in front of the House Financial Services Committee on Tuesday.

John Ray, the current CEO of FTX, blamed the digital currency exchange’s collapse on “grossly inexperienced and unsophisticated individuals” who failed to implement any controls, in prepared testimony for the House Financial Services Committee. 

Sam Bankman-Fried, the disgraced former CEO of FTX, agreed on Friday to testify before the House Financial Services Committee under threat of a subpoena after a week of dodging.

Rep. Andy Barr (R-KY), a member of the House Financial Services Committee, said on Monday that if disgraced former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried can do a “media rehabilitation tour,” then he can testify in front of the committee.

Sam Bankman-Fried, the disgraced former CEO of FTX, on Sunday dodged House Financial Services Committee Chair Maxine Waters’ (D-CA) call to testify. 

House Financial Services Committee Chairman Maxine Waters (D-CA) dodged questions on whether Democrats who received donations from the disgraced former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried should return the donations. 

A New York Times analysis revealed Tuesday that Rep. Cindy Axne (D-IA) is one of at least 97 members of Congress who “bought or sold stock, bonds or other financial assets that intersected with their congressional work or reported similar transactions by their spouse or a dependent child.”

House Financial Services Committee Ranking Member Patrick McHenry (R-NC) reportedly will focus on becoming the committee chairman next year if Republicans take the House, instead of jockeying for a leadership position. 

Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) is vying to fill the seat on the House Financial Services Committee left open by Rep. Steve Stivers (R-OH), who resigned this month to become CEO of the Ohio Chamber of Commerce.

Facing a looming censure vote in the U.S. House of Representatives, Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) is defiant in her latest public comments since House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy announced his intention to pursue the drastic consequence for her violent rhetoric this weekend.

The Fed chair sounded a bit more upbeat about the progress of the economic recovery on Tuesday.

Rep. Katie Porter (D-CA) is not easily falling in line with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), presenting a rift within the caucus that rarely voices alternative views to leadership’s authority.

The man at the center of the GameStop phenomenon, Keith Gill, began his testimony to a House panel by saying, “I’m not a cat.”

House Democrats will hold a hearing Tuesday on the alleged “racial and gender wealth gap” in America.

Rep. Andy Barr said at a House Financial Services Committee hearing that Congress created the $1.5 trillion student loan debt crisis.

The House Financial Services Committee will hold a hearing Tuesday on the student debt crisis. 

A group of banks has turned over documents on Russians who may have done business with President Donald Trump following a request from Congress, a Thursday report states. 

Ocasio-Cortez suggested Republicans use illegal immigration to hide racism, telling the hosts that the ongoing debate “has never been about undocumented immigrants.”

Congressional Democrats and President Obama orchestrated a government takeover of student lending in 2010.

House Financial Services Committee Chairwoman Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) said that Wells Fargo should oust its president and CEO Timothy Sloan after the bank announced it would give him a pay raise.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) announced on Twitter Tuesday evening that will be serving on the House Financial Services Committee led by Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA), a vocal critic of President Trump.

Democratic Socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has yet to be sworn in as New York 14th District’s Representative in the House, but she is already lobbying to be seated on some of the most powerful committees in that chamber.

Representative-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) said on Thursday that she would like a seat on the House Financial Services Committee.

Late Saturday afternoon the White House announced President Trump’s “intent to nominate” Kathy Kraninger, an aide to Office of Management and Budget (OMB) director Mick Mulvaney, to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), where Mulvaney has also served as acting director since November

WASHINGTON, DC — The struggling socialist Venezuelan regime, a global hub for crime-terror convergence, has been harboring criminal and terrorist groups such as Iran’s proxy Hezbollah, Chinese Triads, the Russian Mafia, and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), an expert on Latin America told lawmakers.

Texas Republican Jeb Hensarling made it clear in a speech to realtors that government-backed housing giants Fannie and Freddie should go

Yet another establishment insider has announced he won’t run for re-election in 2018, Republican Rep. Jeb Hensarling of Texas.

Al-Qaeda has explored the critical infrastructure in the U.S., such as electric power, telephone communications, and water supplies in search of vulnerabilities to carry out “electronic jihad,” or cyberterrorism, warns the the House Task Force to Investigate Terrorism Financing.

Shiite Iran’s narco-jihadist proxy Hezbollah is operating a “virtually unopposed drug trafficking operation” in South America with links to the terrorist group Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), reports the bipartisan House Task Force to Investigate Terrorism Financing.

A horrified nation learned this week that President Obama handed over $1.7 billion in cash to the terror masters of Iran as part of his nuclear deal, using pallets stacked with currency to circumvent Congressional authority and gifting Iran with a huge amount of untraceable money to sponsor bloodshed across the Middle East.

On Tuesday, the Obama administration finally admitted something its critics had long suspected: The entire $1.7 billion tribute paid to Iran was tendered in cash — not just the initial $400 million infamously shipped to the Iranians in a cargo plane — at the same moment four American hostages were released.

Gretchen Morgenson writes in the New York Times about the congressional report titled “Too Big to Jail” issued by Texas Congressman Jeb Hensarling’s House Financial Services Committee.