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Fair housing advocates testified on affordable housing proposals before the House Financial Services Committee. Topics included inflation, homelessness, housing supply and demand, rental ass…

The House Financial Services Committee convened a hearing as part of its investigation of the crypto currency company FTX, which collapsed in early November 2022. The company’s former CEO, S…

CEOs from the country’s six largest banks, including Jamie Dimon from JPMorgan Chase, Jane Fraser from Citigroup, and Brian Moynihan from Bank of America, testified before the House Financia…

CEOs from the country’s six largest banks, including Jamie Dimon from JPMorgan Chase, Jane Fraser from Citigroup, and Brian Moynihan from Bank of America, testified on regulatory and oversig…

Advocates for those experiencing homelessness testified about ways to address the crisis across the country. Members of a House Financial Services subcommittee asked witnesses about a variet…

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell acknowledged the Fed “underestimated” the risk of inflation but assured members of the House Financial Services Committee that a recession is not inevitab…

The House approved a package of 13 measures promoting diversity and inclusion in the financial sector. More specifically, it includes provisions intended to increase access to banking servic…

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen testified at a House Financial Services Committee hearing on the outlook of the global financial system. Secretary Yellen said Russia’s actions in Ukraine “re…

Secretary of State Antony Blinken testified at House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on the agency’s foreign policy priorities and fiscal year 2023 budget request. Secretary Blinken defend…

Lawmakers on a House Financial Services subcommittee debated whether the government should intervene to curb the use of overdraft fees by banks. Democrats on the panel argued the fees advers…

The House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Europe held a hearing on suspected war crimes and other human rights abuses allegedly committed by Russia during its invasion of Ukraine. Experts wi…

Acting Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said he expected to propose and support a 25-basis-point (0.25%) interest rate hike at the next board meeting. He made this announcement during a H…

Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman told lawmakers the Biden administration supports working with Congress to update the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) that was appr…

State Department and USAID officials testified at a House Foreign Affairs joint subcommittee hearing on conflicts in Africa and the U.S. policy response. The witnesses highlighted solutions …

The House Financial Services Committee heard testimony from the CEOs of several cryptocurrency and financial technology companies. Topics included the growth and challenges of cryptocurrency…

Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Gary Gensler testified at a House Financial Services Committee hearing on agency priorities. He discussed a variety of topics, including investment i…

The House Financial Services Subcommittee on Housing, Community Development and Insurance held a virtual hearing to examine the impact exclusionary zoning policies have on affordable housing…

Daniel Foote, former U.S. special envoy for Haiti, testified at a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing U.S. policy toward Haitian migrants. Ambassador resigned from his special envoy posi…

Secretary of State Antony Blinken testified before the House Foreign Affairs Committee for more than five hours on the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. Lawmakers pressed him on several topi…

The House convened for one-minute speeches. Jake Elizey (R-TX) was sworn in as the replacement for former Representative Ron Wright (R), who died of COVID-19 on February 7. Representative El…