News List

  • Chairman Hensarling Statement on FHA Capital Standards
    Nov 17, 2014 - House Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling (R-TX) released the following statement regarding the Federal Housing Administration’s (FHA) failure to once again meet its capital ratio requirement. “A year ago the FHA received its first-ever taxpayer-funded bailout and 12 months later th... More
  • Investigation Reveals Export-Import Bank Exaggerating Help for Small Business
    Nov 14, 2014 - Investigation Reveals Export-Import Bank Exaggerating Help for Small Business Reuters news agency investigation finds Ex-Im lists “companies owned by billionaires” and “Japanese and European conglomerates” as “small businesses” Ex-Im’s list of “small businesses” includes one that has 53,000 employee... More
  • FSC Majority | Week in Review
    Nov 14, 2014 - Full Committee Examines Terrorist Financing and the Islamic State The Financial Services Committee examined ongoing U.S. efforts to stop the Islamic State (ISIL) and other terror groups from obtaining and deploying financial resources at a hearing on Thursday. “Unlike al Qaeda and other terror grou... More
  • Hensarling Opening Statement on Terrorist Financing and the Islamic State
    Nov 13, 2014 - CLICK HERE TO WATCH WASHINGTON- House Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling (R-TX) delivered the following opening statement at today’s full committee hearing on terrorist financing and the Islamic State: “The 9/11 Commission estimated that al Qaeda’s brutal, evil attack on 9/11 cost... More
  • Hensarling Comments on Report Ex-Im Mischaracterizes Help for Small Businesses
    Nov 13, 2014 - Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling (R-TX) released the following statement concerning a media report that the Export-Import Bank has mischaracterized “large companies and units of multinational conglomerates as small businesses”. “Rarely does Ex-Im miss a PR opportunity to claim th... More
  • ICYMI: Hensarling in The Washington Times: Wean Business Insurers off Terrorism Risk Insurance Act
    Nov 12, 2014 - CLICK HERE TO READ By Rep. Jeb Hensarling The threat posed by radical Islam once again commands the nation's attention at the same time Congress debates whether to re-extend a never-used terrorism-risk insurance program that was supposed to expire nine years ago. The 2002 Terrorism Risk Insurance A... More
  • 11/10/2014 | Weekly Rundown
    Nov 10, 2014 - On Thursday at 10:00 a.m. the Full Committee will hold a hearing to examine terrorist financing and the Islamic State. More
  • Hensarling Announces Committee Hearing on Islamic State’s Financing
    Nov 7, 2014 - Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling (R-TX) today announced the committee will hold a hearing next Thursday on “Terrorist Financing and The Islamic State” to examine U.S. efforts to disrupt the terror organization’s primary sources of funding. “The enormous wealth of the Islamic Stat... More
  • Hensarling Statement on Outlook for 114th Congress
    Nov 5, 2014 - Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling (R-TX) issued the following statement concerning the outlook for the 114th Congress: “The American people want a fresh start in Washington because they know Washington’s way of over-regulating, over-taxing and over-spending doesn’t work. They have... More
  • FSC DIGITAL SHORT - “The Thing That Kills Jobs!”
    Oct 30, 2014 - CLICK HERE TO WATCH HORROR! SHOCK! DEVASTATION! Top-down regulations from Washington make it harder to have a growing economy on Main Street that creates good jobs. Yet each year Washington churns out page after page of new regulations, rules and red tape in the Federal Register. It’s become a MONS... More