Tag: Finance

Chairman of the House Financial Services Committee Jeb Hensarling confers with a staff member during a hearing on the Export-Import bank's reauthorization request, and the government's role in export financing, on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, June 3, 2015.

Two bills to relax financial rules included in spending package

Joseph Lawler · March 22, 2018 6:31 pm

Senators split on how to negotiate bank bill with the House

Joseph Lawler · March 21, 2018 4:01 am

Finance and Economy

Debt hawk Pete Peterson dies at 91, funded fiscally conservative groups

Joseph Lawler · March 20, 2018 8:44 pm

Banking bill would give local governments a funding boost

Joseph Lawler · March 20, 2018 4:00 am

Twitter sets Bitcoin rules after Facebook, Google ban crypto ads

James Langford · March 19, 2018 1:56 pm

The Capitol Building as seen in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 8, 2016. A day ahead of a government shutdown deadline, Congress scrambled on Thursday, Dec. 8, 2016, to wrap-up unfinished business, voting decisively to send President Barack Obama a defense policy bill but facing obstacles on a stopgap spending measure.

Senate passes banking regulatory relief bill, but House prospects unclear

Joseph Lawler · March 14, 2018 9:19 pm

Sen. Elizabeth Warren questions why Equifax did not disclose an investigation into insider-trading claims involving an executive indicted this week when it announced, last fall, that four others had been cleared.

Senate moves into endgame on bipartisan bill to ease banking rules

Joseph Lawler · March 12, 2018 11:13 pm

A trader works in the Goldman Sachs booth on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. The field of potential successors to CEO Lloyd Blankfein has narrowed with co-Chief Operating Officer Harvey Mitchell's retirement. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

Cohn’s successor at Goldman poised to become next CEO

James Langford · March 12, 2018 4:39 pm

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., said the bill puts the country at a greater risk of the government being forced to bail out more banks. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Elizabeth Warren: Senate banking bill puts US at ‘greater risk’ of another bank bailout

Kyle Feldscher · March 11, 2018 2:01 pm

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., acknowledges that she can't stop a legislative package that would remove or limit many financial regulations, especially ones that apply to community banks and regional banks. But she is criticizing fellow Democrats, particularly those in red states, for supporting the bill. ( AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Elizabeth Warren sets up a ‘circular firing squad’ among Democrats over banking bill

Joseph Lawler · March 11, 2018 4:01 am

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., expresses her opposition to a move in the Senate to pass legislation that would roll back some of the safeguards Congress put into place after a financial crisis rocked the nation's economy ten years ago. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Elizabeth Warren predicts financial crisis within the decade if banking reform bill passes

Joseph Lawler · March 8, 2018 8:18 pm

House Financial Services Committee Chairman Rep. Jeb Hensarling, R-Texas, wants more provisions that have passed the House on a bipartisan basis included in the bank regulatory relief bill, per spokesperson. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Jeb Hensarling wants changes to Senate bipartisan bank regulatory relief bill

Joseph Lawler · March 8, 2018 6:11 pm