Government Sponsored Enterprises

• House Hearing on GSEs Proceeds as Snow Falls

  By Heather Anderson  |  March 6, 2013

  Panel to discuss how government policy at Fannie and Freddie played role in housing collapse and financial crisis.

• Tax Foundation Advocates Taxing Credit Unions to Reduce Deficit

  By Heather Anderson  |  December 7, 2012

  Report filled with bankers' talking points, ignores bank tax breaks.

• Dems' Successor to Frank Unclear

  By Claude R. Marx  |  November 29, 2011

  Retiring Massachusetts congressman's spot won't be filled for a year, but seniority may not be the deciding factor.

• Onsite Coverage: CUs Make Pitch at Bank Hearing

  By Claude R. Marx  |  November 16, 2011

  WASHINGTON, D.C. — If banks are getting regulatory relief credit unions deserve the same opportunity.

• CUNA, NAFCU Bash, Praise Bank Deregulation Measure

  By Claude R. Marx  |  November 15, 2011

  CUNA President/CEO Bill Cheney and NAFCU President/CEO Fred Becker plan to tell lawmakers on Wednesday that less is more.

• Becker and Cheney to Testify on Bank Reg Relief Bill

  By Claude R. Marx  |  November 11, 2011

  CUNA President/CEO Bill Cheney and NAFCU President/CEO Fred Becker are among the witnesses at next Wednesday’s House hearing on a measure that would give banks regulatory and tax relief.

• Panel Concludes That Financial Crisis Was Avoidable; Blames Government and Business

  By Claude R. Marx  |  January 27, 2011

  The financial crisis that wreaked havoc on the economy was "the result of human action and inaction, not of Mother nature or computer models gone haywire," a government commission that spent 18 months studying the crisis concluded.

• Capito To Chair Panel Overseeing Credit Unions

  By Claude R. Marx  |  December 9, 2010

  Rep. Shelly Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) will chair the House subcommittee that has oversight over credit unions and other depository institutions, incoming Financial Services Chairman Spencer Bachus (R-Ala.) announced today.

• House Subcommittee Plans Hearing On Housing

  By David Morrison  |  September 13, 2010

  There will likely be another round of place holding and finger pointing on Capitol Hill on Sept. 15 when a House Financial Services Subcommittee opens a hearing on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

• NAFCU Adds More Speakers to Caucus Roster

  By David Morrison  |  September 8, 2010

  NAFCU has added more federal legislators and an additional regulator to the roster of speakers for its 2010 Congressional Caucus.