House Financial Services Committee

"From a position of relative weakness, Waters managed a feat that – at least to our already Godfather addled brains – recalled the strategy if not the techniques that Michael Corleone used to [...]

"In what we view as the most important and consequential exchange of the day, Gary Gensler badly mishandled opening questions from the HFSC Chair about whether the cryptocurrency Ether is a [...]

"In a perhaps inevitable corollary to his self-conscious emphasis on bipartisanship, in his opening statement and throughout the markup, Rep. McHenry made clear in words and his conduct that he [...]

On December 13, 2022, the U.S. House Committee on Financial Services (HFSC) held a Full Committee Hearing entitled, “Investigating the Collapse of FTX, Part I.”  The only witness to testify [...]

"Today, at the opening of the House Financial Services Committee's final hearing of the 117th Congress, Committee Chair Maxine Waters (D-CA) and Committee Ranking Member Patrick McHenry (R-NC) [...]

"Although ballots continue to be counted in a handful of House races, and there is a December runoff in Georgia, the makeup of the 118th Congress has largely come into shape. Democrats will [...]

This evening, the U.S. House considered a slate of financial services committee bills on an expedited basis, via the House Suspension Calendar.  The legislation approved in the House today [...]