Claire Williams covers banking policy matters on Capitol Hill. She previously wrote about financial and economic policy for Morning Consult and earlier had stints at S&P Global and the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.
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Brian Johnson's nomination to lead the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau advanced to the full Senate Thursday morning in a party-line vote.
September 17 -
Anxieties over AI drew attention from Democrats and Republicans during Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's testimony at the House Financial Services Committee.
September 15 -
Polling suggests that Democrats could retake control of the House and have a formidable shot at the Senate as well. If they win both chambers, oversight of bank regulation, crypto and Trump administration officials will be the name of the game.
September 14 -
President Donald Trump Wednesday signed a continuing resolution to fund the government through December, averting a government shutdown at least until after November's elections.
September 3 -
The Republican proposal would bring the CFPB under congressional appropriations and curb several of its regulatory powers.
September 1 -
A continuing resolution to fund the government through mid-December would prevent the White House from blocking grants — including some in the banking sector — to states and municipalities that voted against President Donald Trump.
August 31 -
A federal judge Wednesday said the Department of Housing and Urban Development failed to justify a sharp overhaul of a long-standing fair-housing grant program.
August 27 -
A group of community development financial institutions are asking a federal court in California to compel Treasury to disburse funds from the CDFI Fund before they expire in September.
August 21 -
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency issued a joint notice of proposed rulemaking for the Community Reinvestment Act that would tailor requirements for smaller institutions and monitor which groups receive community development grants.
July 31 -
The package of banking measures will need 60 votes — including a number of Democrats — to pass the Senate on a tight time frame ahead of November's elections. But the bipartisan House vote signals that future work on the issues is possible.
July 22 -
House Republicans floated discussion legislative drafts aimed, in part, at strengthening the Federal Home Loan Banks' role providing liquidity to the financial system.
July 21 -
The bipartisan housing package, dismissed by President Trump as a "yawn," takes effect automatically after he declined to sign it in protest over stalled voter ID legislation.
July 11 -
The bill, which passed with wide bipartisan support, will become law at midnight if President Donald Trump doesn't veto it.
July 10 -
The Senate Banking Committee is slated to consider Christopher Phelan to be the chair of the Council of Economic Advisers on Thursday. Phelan has said in past academic papers that fractional reserve banking is "highly problematic."
June 24 -
President Donald Trump said he wouldn't sign the housing bill, which includes several riders aimed at helping community banks, until Congress passes the SAVE Act.
June 24 -
The bipartisan legislation aimed at reducing barriers to new home construction, which included certain community bank riders, passed the lower chamber by a 358-32 vote.
June 23 -
Tech companies may be the biggest winners of a custodial deposit provision tucked away in a much-touted bipartisan housing bill set to become law this week.
June 23 -
The Senate passed a bipartisan housing package, which includes certain community bank provisions, in an 85-5 vote. The House is set to vote on the package Wednesday.
June 22 -
A potential deletion from a long-standing regulatory definition has banks questioning how to classify vast swaths of their lending books.
June 18 -
The first bipartisan, bicameral housing compromise includes a suite of community banking provisions long sought by the industry.
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