To allow members of the House Financial Services Committee to attend hearings, don't be surprised if the panel starts announcing meetings in Iowa and New Hampshire.
The committee has no less than three declared presidential candidates running for the GOP nomination, including Reps. Ron Paul, R-Texas, Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., and Thaddeus McCotter, R-Mich.
Speaking at the National Press Club on July 11, Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., the committee's ranking member, joked that reporters covering financial-services policy should ask their editors for extra compensation for covering both the committee and the presidential election.
"I hope people won't need to get by the Secret Service to get to our committee meetings," Frank said. "I don't think we've ever had three declared presidential candidates on one Congressional committee before."
