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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President Donald Trump has ousted Todd Harper and Tanya Otsuka, Democratic board members of the National Credit Union Administration, before the end of their Senate-confirmed terms in the latest example of bipartisan regulator boards being undermined in Washington.
April 16 -
A bill being introduced by Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nev., would compel the Federal Home Loan Bank System to contribute 30%, or a minimum of $200 million, of each bank's net earnings into affordable housing or other community development programs.
April 11 -
Federal Reserve Gov. Michelle Bowman, who has been nominated to be the central bank's top regulator, sidestepped direct questions about the Trump administration's incursion into the Fed's regulatory independence.
April 10 -
Federal Reserve Gov. Michelle Bowman will go before the Senate Banking Committee Thursday for her confirmation hearing to be the next vice chair for supervision at the central bank.
April 10 -
House Financial Services Committee member Andy Barr, R-Ky., will introduce a Congressional Review Act resolution to nullify the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency's merger rule that went into effect in January.
April 10 -
Congressional Review Act resolutions to nullify the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's overdraft and larger participant rules now go to President Trump for his signature.
April 9 -
Senate Banking Committee Chairman Tim Scott said Jonathan McKernan's final confirmation vote to lead the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is "imminent."
April 8 -
As President Donald Trump's tariffs whipsaw bank shares and threaten recession, the House Financial Services Committee chairman told a large room of bankers that efforts like repealing the small business data collection rule and passing legislation to Congressionally appropriate the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau are among his priorities.
April 8 -
Bankers are growing frustrated as President Donald Trump's trade policy causes turmoil in markets and confusion for clients. But banking trade groups in Washington — at least publicly — are remaining silent.
April 7 -
Jonathan Gould, President Donald Trump's pick to lead the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, passed through the Senate Banking Committee on a party-line 13 to 11 vote.
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