Nov 11, 2022 | Congressional Legislation, News
Three Days after Election, Control of House and Senate Still Undecided; Key Financial Services Policymakers Win Re-Election While Republicans were widely expected by most prognosticators to take a sizeable majority in the House of Representatives and have a chance at...
Oct 17, 2022 | Congressional Legislation, News
House Republicans Press Acting Comptroller on Bank-Fintech Partnerships Last week, House Financial Services Committee Ranking Member Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.) led a group of Republicans from the Committee’s Task Force on Financial Technology in a letter to acting...
Oct 14, 2022 | Congressional Legislation, Litigation, News
State AGs Sue to Halt Cancellation of Student Loan Debt Last month, Attorneys General in several states filed a complaint against President Biden, Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona, and the U.S. Department of Education seeking to block the implementation of the...
Sep 26, 2022 | Congressional Legislation, News
Republican Ranking Members on House Oversight and Financial Services Committees Press CFPB Director to Justify His Authority In a letter sent last week by Reps. Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.) and James Comer (R-Ky.) to CFPB Director Rohit Chopra, the pair of Republican...
Sep 19, 2022 | Congressional Legislation, News
Senate Banking Committee Holds Hearing on New Consumer Financial Products Last week, the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs convened a hearing to examine “New Consumer Financial Products and the Impacts to Workers.” It proved to be another hearing...
Sep 5, 2022 | Congressional Legislation, News
Mary Peltola Wins Special Election, Becoming the First Alaska Native Elected to Congress Last week, Mary Peltola, a Yup’ik Alaska Native, was declared the winner in a special election for Alaska’s at large Congressional seat, which became vacant when Rep. Don Young...