Two bills to relax financial rules included in spending package

The chairman of the House Financial Services Committee got two financial regulatory bills attached to the government spending bill that cleared the House Thursday en route to President Trump’s desk.

Rep. Jeb Hensarling, R-Texas, has been angling to get House bipartisan regulatory relief bills added to a different legislative vehicle, a bipartisan banking bill that has cleared the upper chamber. But two of the bills hitched a ride on the $1.3 trillion omnibus spending bill.