Key house committee to weigh housing, regulatory burden issues this month

House Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling, R-TX, released the committee’s schedule for April. Throughout the month, the committee will continue its focus on the nation’s housing finance policy, relieving the regulatory burden on small community financial institutions and ending too-big-to-fail.

Scheduled hearings include:

• April 5: The Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee will examine reports of waste, fraud and abuse at the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
• April 10: The Housing and Insurance Subcommittee will hold a hearing on the future of the FHA.
• April 10: The Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit Subcommittee will discuss regulatory relief for small community financial institutions.
• April 11: The Monetary Policy and Trade Subcommittee will examine the U.S. role in the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
• April 11: The Capital Markets and Government Sponsored Enterprises Subcommittee will hold a hearing to review legislation to reform derivatives provisions of the Dodd-Frank Act.
• April 16: The Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit Subcommittee will hold a hearing on regulatory relief for small community financial institutions.
• April 16: The Oversight and Investigation Subcommittee will hold its second in a series of hearings on the need to end too-big-to-fail.
• April 17: The full committee will hold a hearing on impediments to private capital in the housing finance system.
• April 24: The Capital Markets and Government Sponsored Enterprises Subcommittee will hold a hearing to review how Sallie Mae was successfully wound down as a GSE.
• April 24: The Monetary Policy and Trade Subcommittee will hold its second hearing on the U.S. role in the IMF.

The committee schedule is tentative and will depend upon witness availability and other factors that may require changes. Therefore, each meeting will become final only when the official notice is distributed.

More information is available at: http://financialservices.house.gov/