The House Financial Services Committee’s Financial Institutions Subcommittee will hold a hearing on Wednesday, March 26, to discuss possible changes to the structure and responsibilities of the CFPB....more
Last week, the CFPB issued its Semi-Annual Report to Congress covering the period beginning October 1, 2022 and ending March 31, 2023. ...more
On March 9, the House Financial Services Committee’s Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Monetary Policy held a hearing to discuss proposals that would alter the structure and authority of the CFPB. The subcommittee...more
The CFPB has issued its Spring 2020 Semi-Annual Report to Congress covering the period September 30, 2019 through March 31, 2020. The report represents the CFPB’s fourth semi-annual report under Director Kraninger’s...more
On July 30, 2020, the House Financial Services Committee will hold a hearing entitled, “Protecting Consumers During the Pandemic? An Examination of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.” ...more
On Wednesday, February 5, the House Financial Services Committee will hold the first part of a two-part hearing on “rent-a-bank” structures. The hearing is titled “Rent-A-Bank Schemes and New Debt Traps: Assessing Efforts to...more
Yesterday’s hearing on the CFPB held by the House Financial Services Committee highlighted the continuing partisan divide over the CFPB’s implementation of its consumer protection mission but with Democratic and Republican...more
The House Financial Services Committee has updated its website to confirm that CFPB Director Kraninger is scheduled to appear at the Committee’s hearing tomorrow entitled “Putting Consumers First? ...more
House Financial Services Committee Maxine Waters has announced a series of hearings for next month, including one entitled “Putting Consumers First? A Semi-Annual Review of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau” scheduled...more
Elections have consequences and the recent midterm elections are no exception. Having won the House majority, Democrats are expected to proceed with an ambitious agenda in January 2019. Much of the focus has been on how the...more
On April 20, 2016, Congressman Sean Duffy sent a letter to Director Cordray indicating that the House Financial Services Committee is investigating “the examination and possible regulation by the [CFPB] of pre-dispute...more
The House Financial Service Committee’s Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations has scheduled a hearing for December 16, 2015 on “Examining the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s Mass Data Collection Program.”...more
CFPB Director Richard Cordray recently appeared before the House Financial Services Committee to answer questions regarding the Bureau’s Semi-Annual Report to Congress and the President, which it published on December 4,...more
The House Financial Services Committee will hold a hearing tomorrow, March 3, entitled “The Semi-Annual Report of the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection” at which Director Cordray is expected to testify. The most recent...more
On Wednesday, September 10, the House Financial Services Committee will hold a hearing entitled “An Overview of the Credit Reporting System.” The scheduled witnesses are...more
On June 18, 2014, CFPB Director Richard Cordray appeared before the House Financial Services Committee to testify about his agency's fifth Semi-Annual Report. As in past hearings, Cordray and House Republicans clashed over...more
The House Financial Services Committee’s Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee will be holding a hearing tomorrow entitled “Allegations of Discrimination and Retaliation within the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau,...more