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Ranking Member Waters’ Statement on Wells Fargo Announcement Confirming They Are Too Big to Manage

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Following news that Wells Fargo will be dramatically shrinking its home lending business and narrowing its focus to mortgage lending for existing customers and borrowers in communities of color, Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA), the top Democrat on the House Financial Services Committee, released the following statement: “After a string of abusive practices, years of breaking the…

Waters Releases Report Celebrating Four Years of Historic Committee Achievements

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Today, Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA), Chairwoman of the House Financial Services Committee, released a report highlighting the historic and transformational work that Committee Democrats achieved under her leadership for both the 116th and 117th Congresses. During a global pandemic, a worsening housing crisis and a widening racial-wealth gap, Committee Democrats have consistently…

Chairwoman Waters Calls on the FTC to Conduct Robust Review of the Proposed ICE Acquisition of Black Knight

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Today, Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA), Chairwoman of the House Financial Services Committee, sent a letter to Chair of the Federal Trade Commission, Lina Khan, urging robust review of the proposed acquisition of Black Knight, a software, data, and analytics company by the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), a leading global provider of data, technology, and market infrastructure. In the…

ICYMI: Chairwoman Waters Presses Nation’s Regulators on FTX Collapse, Efforts to Protect Communities

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Today, Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA), Chairwoman of the House Committee on Financial Services, convened a full committee hearing entitled, “Oversight of Prudential Regulators: Ensuring the Safety, Soundness, Diversity, and Accountability of Depository Institutions.” As it stands, America’s workers, small businesses, and communities are feeling the impacts of persistent inflation, an…

Waters Delivers Opening Statement at Full Committee Hearing on Oversight of Prudential Regulators

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Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA), Chairwoman of the House Committee on Financial Services, delivered the following statement at a full Committee hearing entitled, “Oversight of Prudential Regulators: Ensuring the Safety, Soundness, Diversity, and Accountability of Depository Institutions.”  Good morning, everyone. I would like to welcome Vice Chair Barr, Acting Chairman…

Waters Announces November Committee Schedule

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Today, Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA), Chairwoman of the House Committee on Financial Services, announced the following schedule for the month of November:  Tuesday, November 15 at 10 a.m. ET: The Subcommittee on Housing, Community Development, and Insurance will convene for a hybrid hearing entitled, “Persistent Poverty in America: Addressing Chronic Disinvestment in…

Chairwoman Waters and 76 House Democrats Urge Regulators to Strengthen Community Reinvestment Act Rules, End Redlining

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Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA), Chairwoman of the House Financial Services Committee, led a letter with 76 Democratic Members of the U.S. House of Representatives to the leaders of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Fed), Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), and Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC). The letter urges the regulators to consider…

Chairwoman Waters Calls on Regulators to Hold Wells Fargo Accountable for Continued Troubling Patterns and Practices of Anti-Consumer Behavior

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Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA), Chairwoman of the House Financial Services Committee, sent a letter to regulators last week, urging them to investigate recent allegations that Wells Fargo denied Black refinancing applicants when interest rates were at their lowest and hosted “mock” interviews with diverse candidates to pad diversity…

Waters and Foster Urge Regulators to Ensure Algorithmic Bias Does Not Occur in Emerging Technology

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Today, Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA), Chairwoman of the House Financial Services Committee and Congressman Bill Foster (D-IL), Chair of the Task Force on Artificial Intelligence, sent a letter to Jerome Powell, Chairman of the Federal Reserve System; Todd Harper, Chairman of the National Credit Union Administration; Rohit Chopra, Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau;…

Waters Urges Federal Agencies and Bank Regulators to Strengthen and Enforce Foreclosure Protections for Homeowners

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Today, Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA), Chairwoman of the House Financial Services Committee, sent two letters to federal agencies and banking regulators urging them to strengthen foreclosure and mortgage servicing protections for borrowers and provide greater oversight to prevent unnecessary foreclosures during the pandemic. In a letter to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban…

Waters Applauds OCC, FDIC, and Federal Reserve Efforts to Undo Damage from Trump-Era Community Reinvestment Act Rule

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Today, Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA), Chairwoman of the House Committee on Financial Services, released the following statement on the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency’s decision to rescind the 2020 Community Reinvestment Act rule and work with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and the Federal Reserve to draft a new rule. “Civil rights laws like the Community…

Waters Opening Statement at Hearing on Oversight of Prudential Regulators

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Today, Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA), Chairwoman of the House Committee on Financial Services, gave the following statement at a full Committee virtual hearing entitled, “Oversight of Prudential Regulators: Ensuring the Safety, Soundness, Diversity, and Accountability of Depository Institutions.”  Welcome, Chairman Harper and Acting Comptroller Hsu, and welcome back Chairman…

Waters Applauds Senate Action to Protect Consumers from Trump-Era Predatory Lending Practices

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Today, Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA), Chairwoman of the House Committee on Financial Services, released the following statement on the Senate’s passage of S.J. Res 15, sponsored by Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) and U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Chairman Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH), which would overturn the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency’s…

Waters Urges Regulators Not to Weaken Big Bank Leverage and Capital Requirements

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Today, Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA), Chairwoman of the House Committee on Financial Services, sent a letter to Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, Federal Reserve Vice Chair Randal Quarles, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Chair Jelena McWilliams, and Acting Comptroller of the Currency Blake Paulson, urging their agencies to stop prioritizing the wishes of Wall Street over the…

Waters Statement on OCC Action to Halt Proposal to Force Banks to Serve Gun Manufacturers and Fossil Fuel Companies

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Today, Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA), Chairwoman of the House Committee on Financial Services, released the following statement on the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency’s (OCC) decision to pause the publication of a final rule that would place our financial system at risk and force banks to serve gun manufacturers and fossil fuel companies. “I am pleased that the OCC has…

Waters and 22 Committee Democrats Urge OCC to Withdraw Proposal to Force Banks to Serve Gun Manufacturers and Fossil Fuel Companies

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Today, Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA), Chairwoman of the House Committee on Financial Services, and 22 other Financial Services Committee Democratic Members sent a letter to Brian Brooks, Acting Comptroller of the Currency, urging him to withdraw an Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) that would increase systemic risks to the financial…

Waters Provides Recommendations to President-Elect Biden on Trump Actions to Reverse

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Today, Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA), Chairwoman of the House Committee on Financial Services, sent a letter to President-Elect Joseph R. Biden, providing recommendations on areas where the Biden Administration should immediately reverse the actions of the Trump Administration, and several actions that the Biden Administration can immediately take to coordinate the federal response…

Waters Demands Regulators Cease and Desist from Finalizing Midnight Rules Until President-Elect Biden Assumes Presidency

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Today, Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA), Chairwoman of the Committee on Financial Services, sent a letter to agencies within the Committee’s jurisdiction calling on them to cease and desist from finalizing any “midnight rulemakings” or other administrative actions until President-Elect Joseph R. Biden is sworn into office on January 20, 2021.  “On November 3, 2020, the American…

Waters to Regulators: President-Elect Biden Has a Mandate to Protect Consumers and End Trump's Wall Street First Agenda

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Today, Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA), Chairwoman of the House Financial Services Committee gave the following statement at a full Committee hearing entitled, “Oversight of Prudential Regulators: Ensuring the Safety, Soundness, Diversity, and Accountability of Depository Institutions during the Pandemic.” On November 3, America decisively rejected President Trump, his harmful…

Waters Blasts Senate Republicans’ Vote to Abet Redlining By Blocking Resolution Reversing Harmful Community Reinvestment Act Rule

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Today, Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA), Chairwoman of the House Committee on Financial Services, issued the following statement after H.J. Res 90, a Congressional Review Act resolution introduced by Chairwoman Waters and Congressman Gregory Meeks (D-NY), Chair of the Subcommittee on Consumer Protection and Financial Institutions, to reverse the harmful Community Reinvestment Act rule…

Waters’ and Meeks’ Resolution to Reverse the OCC’s Harmful Rule Undermining the Community Reinvestment Act Passes the House

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Today, H.J. Res 90, a Congressional Review Act resolution of disapproval to nullify the OCC’s harmful Community Reinvestment Act rule introduced by Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA), Chairwoman of the House Financial Services Committee, and Congressman Gregory Meeks (D-NY), Chair of the Subcommittee on Consumer Protection and Financial Institutions, passed the U.S. House of…

Waters and Meeks Introduce Congressional Review Act Resolution to Reverse Harmful Rule to Weaken the Community Reinvestment Act

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Today, Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA), Chairwoman of the House Financial Services Committee, and Congressman Gregory Meeks (D-NY), Chair of the Subcommittee on Consumer Protection and Financial Institutions, introduced a Congressional Review Act resolution to reverse the harmful Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) rule recently finalized by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency.…

Waters Blasts Acting Comptroller Brooks’ Letter Pressuring State and Local Governments to End Measures to Combat COVID-19

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Tags: OCC, COVID-19

Today, Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA), Chairwoman of the House Committee on Financial Services, made the following statement regarding a letter that Acting Comptroller of the Currency Brian Brooks sent to the National League of Cities, the U.S. Conference of Mayors, and the National Association of Governors regarding efforts to combat COVID-19. “With this inappropriate letter…

Waters Statement on OCC Rule on Interest on Transferred Loans

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Tags: OCC, COVID-19

Today, Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA), Chairwoman of the House Committee on Financial Services, issued the following statement regarding the Office of the Comptroller’s issuance of a final rule on interest rates on transferred loans: “It is shameful that on his first day on the job, new Acting Comptroller Brian Brooks is already following in Comptroller Otting’s footsteps in…

Waters Blasts Otting’s Departing Act to Weaken CRA During COVID-19 Pandemic

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Tags: OCC, COVID-19

Today, Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA), Chairwoman of the House Financial Services Committee, made the following statement in response to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency’s (OCC) issuance of a final rule weakening the implementation of the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA): “It is simply outrageous that in the midst of the Coronavirus pandemic and on his way out the…

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