Topic - House Committee On Financial Services

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  Ethics panel looking at chairman's stock trades

  The chairman of the House Financial Services Committee says he's cooperating with an Office of Government Ethics investigation into his stock trades and expects to be exonerated.

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  Congress trying to police itself on insider trading

  Aware that most Americans would like to dump them all, members of Congress hope to regain some sense of trust by subjecting themselves to tougher penalties for insider trading and requiring that they disclose stock transactions within 30 days.

• Inside Politics

  Republican presidential hopeful Rick Perry — with nowhere to go but up — is making an aggressive play to rise in Iowa by courting Christian evangelicals who could help revive his campaign.

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  MILLER: Nancy Pelosi's office without a view

  Less than a year ago, Rep. Nancy Pelosi was forced to move across the second floor hall of the Capitol, leaving behind the magnificent speaker's balcony that overlooks the National Mall. With the possibility of retaking control of the House of Representatives growing more remote by the day, the California Democrat will have to get used to the east-front view of parked cars and the visitors' center entrance as her Democratic colleagues abandon ship.

• Consumer bureau's request for $28M raises eyebrows

  House Republicans concerned about a lack of accountability at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau have requested information from the independent agency about its spending.

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  Panel votes to cap salaries for Fannie, Freddie executives

  Reflecting still-simmering anger on Capitol Hill about the collapse of U.S. housing markets, a congressional panel Tuesday voted to suspend lucrative executive bonuses and to cap the salaries of top officials at bailed-out mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

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  STIVERS: Correcting Dodd-Frank

  A picture paints a thousand words, but in the case of a foot-high stack of government regulations, it's not a pretty picture. And it's more like several-hundred-thousand words with the number of government regulations increasing tenfold under the current administration. The reality of government regulations run amok was brought home to me when one of my constituents, a local business leader, brought in a stack of new federal rules with which his company needed to be in compliance within a matter of weeks. So, instead of hiring a number of new employees on the plant floor and growing his business, this business leader had to turn the time and attention of his top-management team to interpreting and complying with these new regulations.

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  Debt-cuts panel gets conflicting Hill input

  The congressional "supercommittee" — the bipartisan group of 12 House and Senate members tasked with finding ways to slash the federal debt — has been flooded with often conflicting suggestions from colleagues eager to tell the panel how to do its job.

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  'Too big to fail' bank law seen as too weak to work

  A year after the enactment of a sweeping Wall Street reform law, evidence is growing that it failed in its main mission of ending taxpayer bailouts of global banks considered "too big to fail."

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  DUFFY: Dodd-Frank: One year later

  It was one year ago today that President Obama signed the so-called "Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010." Like other signature pieces of legislation of this administration, the name can be misleading. Like the so-called "stimulus" that stimulated nothing but more government debt, this bill fails to actually reform Wall Street or protect consumers, which is a remarkable accomplishment, considering it was more than 2,300 pages long and contained more than 400 regulations and mandates.

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  Waters demands dismissal of House ethics complaint

  Rep. Maxine Waters on Tuesday sought dismissal of House Ethics Committee allegations that she tried to obtain a federal bailout for a bank where her husband is an investor. Her attorney said misconduct and partisanship in the committee made a fair ethics proceeding impossible.

• Moody's reiterates credit-rating threat

  Moody's Investors Service on Wednesday moved toward downgrading the Treasury's AAA credit rating, considered the gold standard in world markets for most of the last century, warning that signs of a breakdown in the increasingly acrimonious budget negotiations have raised the likelihood of default.

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  Bernanke: More Fed stimulus if needed

  Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said Wednesday that the central bank is prepared to provide additional stimulus if the economic lull persists.

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  GOP trying to weaken financial overhaul law

  Congressional Republicans are greeting the one-year anniversary of President Obama's financial overhaul law by trying to weaken it, nibble by nibble.

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  GOP uses budget, other tools to sap financial law

  Congressional Republicans are greeting the one-year anniversary of President Obama's financial overhaul law by trying to weaken it, nibble by nibble.

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