The minority staff of the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs recently released a report on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), revealing the number of consumer c...
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The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill that seeks to help small business owners who are veterans grow their businesses. The Successful Entrepreneurship for Reservists and Veterans (SERV) A...
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Senate Democrats want to know if the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s focus on reprivatizing Fannie Mae and Freddie Max will make mortgages more expensive. In a letter to HUD S...
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The U.S. House of Representatives recently passed bipartisan legislation that would increase the percentage of capital and surplus a bank or federal savings association can invest in Small Business In...
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Melanie Krause, the current Internal Revenue Service (IRS) chief operating officer, recently was named acting IRS commissioner, effective Friday. Krause will replace Acting Commissioner Doug O’Donne...
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U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) and other colleagues urged two federal courts to affirm that Congress has the power to crack down on money laundering. As part of an amicus brief in the Texas Top Cop Sh...
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The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) put out an advisory on how the commission’s Division of Enforcement will evaluate self-reporting, cooperation, and remediation when recommending enfor...
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U.S. Sens. Jerry Moran (R-KS) and Mark Warner (D-VA) introduced a bill in the senate that would ensure that federal broadband deployment funding will not be considered taxable income. Currently, gr...
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U.S. Reps Jimmy Panetta (D-CA) and Mike Kelly (R-PA) introduced legislation that seeks to incentivize homeowners to sell their properties, increasing the housing supply and alleviating affordability c...
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Two bills designed to reform the Small Business Administration (SBA) disaster loan process, as well as to fix the broken federal work force, advanced out of the U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business...
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