House Financial Services Committee

The House Financial Services Committee will hold a hearing Feb. 26 on "holding credit bureaus accountable" — one of seven hearings scheduled by the panel for the month.

After the State of the Union speech Tuesday night, members of the House and Senate banking committees said they were intent on trying to address the biggest unresolved piece of financial services policy: housing finance reform.

The agency's acting director said he welcomes lawmakers' “insight and perspective” on how to end the conservatorships of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

Several new members of the House Financial Services Committee with backgrounds in housing could use their experience to address Chairman Maxine Waters' top agenda items.

The lineup of new members to the House Financial Services Committee includes several rising Democratic stars.

A lapse in rental-assistance funding, an understaffed FHA and other effects of the government shutdown are causing real harm to families, said the chair of the House Financial Services Committee.

Lawmakers and industry groups were caught off guard when FEMA said it wouldn't issue flood insurance policies during the government shutdown, despite an extension passed last week.

Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., will take the gavel on the Financial Services Committee next term.

The House Financial Services Committee held a hearing to examine the outgoing committee chairman's bipartisan GSE reform bill, but lawmakers were already looking ahead.

The White House confirmed that it plans to nominate Mark Calabria as the next director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency.