U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs

WASHINGTON -- Nearly all Senate Republicans have pledged to block the confirmation of Richard Cordray to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, adding to the uncertainty about the agency's leadership after a recent court ruling threatening his...

Talk about karma. After lobbying ferociously to prevent Elizabeth Warren from running the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the banking industry now must contend with her sitting on the Senate Banking Committee. Rumors have circulated for...

WASHINGTON -- A top Obama administration official said Thursday that he could not guarantee that efforts to shore up a key government housing agency won't save it from needing a taxpayer bailout next year. But Housing and Urban Development Secretary...

PIERRE - Ten years ago, he almost didn't run for governor. His friendly, homespun campaign proved to be the right answer in an ugly time. Mike Rounds no longer is the underdog. Now, he is the intimidator. No longer governor because of term limits,...

Ten years ago he almost didn’t run for governor. His friendly, homespun campaign proved to be the right answer in an ugly time. Mike Rounds no longer is the underdog. Now he is the intimidator. No longer governor because of term limits, he set...

On July 17, the U.S. Senate pulled off a Half Ginsburg by convening three Capitol Hill hearings on why the crooks and crackpots in charge of global finance find it ridiculously easy to make suckers out of you and me and Swiss cheese out of American laws....

Yes, it’s irrational. And it’s what the GOP says it wants for our country, to save us from becoming “like Europe.” It’s also what the post-New Deal Democratic Party stands for, only a little less. Let’s start with...