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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The chairman of the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Financial Institutions will reintroduce a bill at noon today designed to speed up the bank merger review process.
March 6 -
President Donald Trump said he inherited an "economic catastrophe" from his predecessor in a joint address to Congress, though markets fell Tuesday on fears of a budding trade war with Canada and Mexico.
March 4 -
At a court hearing on Monday, lawyers for the Trump administration said statutorily required work is being done by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, while the union claimed the government is trying to shut the agency down.
March 3 -
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's decision to no longer pursue its enforcement action against the credit reporting bureau marks the eighth lawsuit dropped by the agency in recent days.
February 28 -
Rep. Andy Barr, R-Ky., is introducing a bill limiting the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's unfair, deceptive or abusive acts and practices authority and another limiting its ability to issue investigative subpoenas.
February 27 -
House Financial Services Committee ranking member Maxine Waters, D-Calif., asked trade groups representing large banks to detail how their members' compliance regimes have changed since the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was effectively shuttered.
February 26 -
Rising populist sentiment in the Republican Party means that banks will have to work harder to get the same kinds of wins they did in 2017.
February 26 -
Senior Republican House Financial Services Committee lawmakers in a letter to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. gave a series of recommendations that they said would combat so-called "debanking."
February 21 -
The GAO studied executive compensation on request from Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., ranking member of the House Financial Services Committee, in the wake of the Silicon Valley Bank crisis in 2023.
February 20 -
Republicans' emerging tax bill could include a measure to subject some credit unions to federal taxes, reigniting a long-simmering conflict between bankers and credit unions.
February 20 -
While Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., is continuing to try and save the agency she helped create, Sen. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., who benefited from crypto spending in his primary race, is a new ally.
February 19 -
President Donald Trump's new executive order could have dramatic implications for bank regulation by subjecting agencies to White House political control.
February 18 -
The probes come at the request of Sens. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Ron Wyden, D-Ore., respectively the ranking members of the Senate Banking and Senate Finance committees.
February 14 -
The heads of both the House and Senate banking committees introduced a Congressional Review Act resolution to undo the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's overdraft rule, a measure that only needs a simple majority in both chambers to pass.
February 13 -
A House Financial Services Committee spokesperson said the committee will hold its required semiannual hearing with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau director after nominee Jonathan McKernan is confirmed rather than with interim director Russell Vought.
February 12 -
In comments to reporters, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., underscored what she said was a conflict of interest between Elon Musk's DOGE's actions at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and his business interests with X Money.
February 11 -
The Federal Reserve chair delivers his first semiannual monetary policy report of the 119th Congress, where he is expected to be asked about Fed independence and the economic impacts of Trump administration's policy choices.
February 11 -
A rally outside the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau headquarters in Washington Monday afternoon boasted 17 lawmakers and roughly 600 attendees, organizers said, who were decrying Trump administration efforts to effectively shutter the bureau.
February 10 -
Leading Republican lawmakers released two similar stablecoin bills last week, legislation that the White House wants finished quickly. Here are four issues banks need to watch as the bills move forward.
February 10 -
President Donald Trump huddled with Republican lawmakers on Thursday and discussed ending some of the biggest tax provisions that impact Wall Street.
February 6
