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| Aug 13, 2026 | Texas Prosecutors Are Trying To Turn A Teenage Shooting Spree Into A Terrorism Case | This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.
For decades, terrorism researchers have generally distinguished terrorism from other forms of violence by one defining feature: t... |
| Jun 23, 2026 | Hill, Waters Applaud Senate Passage of 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act | House Committee on Financial Services Chairman French Hill (AR-02) and Ranking Member Maxine Waters (CA-43) issued the following statements after the Senate passed the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act:
“Housing affordability starts with sup... |
| Apr 2, 2026 | Manufactured housing is the homeownership solve we keep ignoring | “Most men appear never to have considered what a house is, and are actually though needlessly poor all their lives because they think that they must have such a one as their neighbors have.” — Henry David Thoreau, Walden.
The National Assoc... |
| Oct 2, 2025 | Trump Jr. dismisses crypto conflicts of interest, says dad’s not checking blockchain ledgers | Watch Daily: Monday - Friday, 3 PM ET
The Trump-backed crypto company World Liberty Financial is not a political organization and concerns about conflicts of interest are “complete nonsense,” Donald Trump Jr. tells CNBC.
“I don’t think anyo... |
| Jul 21, 2025 | Trump Media builds $2 billion bitcoin hoard, as cryptocurrency swells president’s net worth | Trump Media and Technology Group said it has accumulated roughly $2 billion in bitcoin and related assets, totaling about two-thirds of its total liquid assets.
Shares of TMTG, which trades on the Nasdaq as DJT, popped as high as 9% when ma... |
| Jul 14, 2025 | The House will vote on a bill to regulate stablecoins during ‘Crypto Week’—what it could mean for you | The U.S. House of Representatives is expected to vote on the Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins, known as the GENIUS Act, this week as part of its self-dubbed “Crypto Week.”
The House will also consider two ot... |
| Jun 26, 2025 | Democrats reintroduce bill to boost first-generation homeownership | Congresswoman Maxine Waters of California — the top Democrat on the House Financial Services Committee — along with with fellow Democrats Al Green, Sylvia Garcia and Ayanna Pressley, on Thursday announced the reintroduction of the Downpayme... |
| Mar 4, 2025 | Maxine Waters hand delivers protest letter to HUD. Scott Turner calls it a ‘political stunt’ | Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), the ranking member of the House Financial Services Committee, journeyed from Capitol Hill to the headquarters of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to hand deliver a letter to HUD Secre... |
| Feb 9, 2025 | Vought shuts down most of the CFPB’s functions, cuts off funding, closes HQ | UPDATE: This story was updated Sunday night to include the news that the CFPB headquarters has been ordered closed this week.
Russell Vought, the newly named acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), is shutting do... |
| Jan 30, 2025 | Fed guided by economic goals and the law, not politics, says Powell | Fed guided by economic goals and the law, not politics, says Powell
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| Jun 24, 2024 | Climate Disclosure Update | Pencils down on climate disclosure compliance? Not so fast.
It is uncertain when or if the SEC’s new climate disclosure rules will come into effect. The ultimate fate of the rules is unclear given the litigation over the rules in the Eighth... |
| Feb 9, 2024 | House Democrats poke the NIMBY bear with 2024 housing push | House Democrats are wading into the contentious issues of housing affordability and local zoning heading into the 2024 campaign.
Why it matters: Housing can be a double edged sword in an election year, with the direct quality-of-life appeal... |
| Aug 23, 2023 |
Rep. Waters wants concessions in ICE-Black Knight settlement agreement | Rep. Maxine Waters, the ranking member of the House Committee on Financial Services, is concerned about the Federal Trade Commission settlement agreement that will allow Intercontinental Exchange Inc. (ICE) and Black Knight to merge.
“In ad... |
| Jul 12, 2023 | What Legislators Need To Know About ESG: One Allocator’s Message To Congress | WASHINGTON - JUNE 5: The U.S. Capitol is shown June 5, 2003 in Washington, DC. Both houses of the ... [+] U.S. Congress, the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives meet in the Capitol. (Photo by Stefan Zaklin/Getty Images)Getty I... |
| May 16, 2023 |
MBA, NAHB urge court to consider impact of CFPB constitutionality decision | A coalition of housing trade groups, including the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA), National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) and the National Association of Realtors (NAR), have filed a joint amicus brief with the United States Supre... |
| Mar 14, 2023 | House hearing highlights partisan division over CFPB mission | The U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Monetary Policy held a hearing last week on whether the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) should be reformed in regard to its mission.
Subcommittee Chair... |
| Mar 1, 2023 | HHS’s Environmental Justice Index institutionalizes climate apartheid | The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has for decades ignored its responsibility to enforce civil rights laws, as I argued last year in a First Opinion essay. Doing nothing to protect minority populations from inequitable health ... |
| Jun 22, 2021 | EM Tech : House FinTech Task Force Considers Implications Of CBDCs | The U.S. House Financial Services Committee Taskforce on Financial Technology considered the implications of central bank digital currencies ("CBDCs") as they pertain to (i) trade-offs in the design of different technological infr... |
| Dec 4, 2020 | Waters Tells Biden to Rescind OCC Crypto Guidance; May Be Part of Anti-Trump, Anti-Crypto Offensive | U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters, who chairs the powerful House Financial Services Committee, wants President-elect Joe Biden to rescind or monitor all of the cryptocurrency-related guidance issued by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (O... |
| Oct 2, 2020 | Waters, Leahy Call on GAO to Review Sustainability of World Bank's International Development Association's New Financing Model | Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA), Chairwoman of the House Financial Services Committee, and Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT), Vice Chairman of the Senate Committee on Appropriations, sent a letter to the Government Accountability Office (GAO)... |
| Mar 11, 2019 | Wells Fargo CEO heads to Congress amid claims that reforms are slipping | Reporting from Washington —
As the chief executive of Wells Fargo & Co. gets set to tell lawmakers that the bank is moving past its history of consumer abuses, a new report contends the embattled San Francisco financial institution is b... |
| Nov 12, 2018 | Maxine Waters to take aim at Wells Fargo and Deutsche Bank as new head of House Financial Services Committee | Reporting from Washington —
Rep. Maxine Waters plans to zero in on two big banks — Wells Fargo & Co. and Deutsche Bank — when she becomes head of the powerful House Financial Services Committee.
The Los Angeles congresswoman, now the co... |
| Nov 7, 2018 | Markets soar after midterm election results signal gridlock — something businesses won’t mind | Reporting from Washington —
Gridlock is good. And bipartisanship could be even better.
That was the message Wednesday from Wall Street, where the stock market soared after the uncertainty of the contentious midterm election ended with the m... |
| Sep 26, 2018 | Maxine Waters is one of Trump’s fiercest critics. She’ll get a powerful new platform if Democrats take the House | Reporting from Washington —
Rep. Maxine Waters has tried for months to get a House committee chairman to subpoena documents from Deutsche Bank about Russian money laundering and the finances of President Trump and his family.
If Democrats w... |
| Jul 18, 2018 | Waters and 61 legislators demand Congress keeps NFIP active | This week, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Financial Services Maxine Waters, D-Calif. and 61 members of Congress demanded a long-term reauthorization of the controversial National Flood Insurance Program.
The House of Representativ... |
| Apr 3, 2018 | Top Federal Reserve pick, another white male, criticized for Wells Fargo oversight | Reporting from Washington —
The Federal Reserve’s top official on the West Coast has been chosen to head its powerful New York regional bank, putting a seasoned economist into a key monetary policymaking role to help offset new Fed Chairman... |
| Mar 26, 2018 | Democrats call for increased funding for federal housing programs | Congressional Democrats are calling for an increase in funding in the fiscal year 2019 budget for federal housing programs.
Friday, Congress passed a $1.3 trillion budget to keep the government open, and provide funding until the end of Sep... |
| Feb 16, 2018 | Democrats call out MulvaneyÕ reported changes to CFPB fair lending enforcement | A group of more than 50 Congressional Democrats are questioning the motivation of Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Acting Director Mick Mulvaney’s reported decision to strip the agency’s Office of Fair Lending and Equal Opportunity of i... |
| Oct 4, 2017 | Waters’ bill gives power to Fed to shut down megabanks | After a year full of discovering multiple scandals at Wells Fargo, starting with the fake account scandal, several Representatives came together to introduce a bill that would give the federal government more control over megabanks.
Ranking... |
| Aug 28, 2017 | Should SoFi be granted a bank charter? Rep. Waters isn’t so sure | As San Francisco-based Social Finance, better known as SoFi, waits for a decision on its bank charter application, the request is drumming up a lot of criticism.
SoFi originally asked the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation to grant the c... |
| Jul 5, 2017 | Rep. Waters reintroduces bill to fully fund public housing | House Democrats on the Financial Services Committee reintroduced legislation last week to preserve and fund the nation’s public housing stock.
The bill, titled the “Public Housing Tenant Protection and Reinvestment Act Of 2017,” is designed... |
| Jun 8, 2017 | Democrats react to Republican claims Cordray slowed Wells Fargo investigation | Democrat representatives responded to a Republican staff report that came out on Tuesday that asked the government to hold Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Richard Cordray accountable for causing a slow down in the massive Well... |
| Key lawmakers say upcoming hearings on bank failures aim to boost U.S. confidence in banking sector | Back-to-back congressional hearings on the failures of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank next week will bring “a great deal of certainty and confidence to the market,” said House Financial Services Committee Chairman Patrick McHenry.
C... |
| Biden calls for stricter banking regulations in the wake of SVB, Signature Bank failures | President Joe Biden urged federal regulators to take concrete steps to safeguard the banking system after the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank.
All the reforms can be accomplished under existing law, the White House said.
... |
| HUD says emergency housing voucher program will be depleted in 2026 | A federal housing program that provides assistance to as many as 60,000 low-income Americans is reportedly on track to run out of funding by the end of next year.
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)’s Emergency Housin... |
| More than 140 Democrats defend CFPB in case before Supreme Court that threatens agency’s existence | Over 140 current and former Democratic lawmakers filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday to defend the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
A case before the court challenges the constitutionality of the agency and could ... |
