Continuing the Committee's focus on promoting job creation, improving the economy and reforming the nation's housing system, Financial Services Committee Chairman Spencer Bachus announced the planned Committee schedule for the remainder of June.
From the start of the 112th Congress, under Chairman Bachus' leadership, the Committee has focused on promoting policies that encourage economic growth and reviewing government policies that impede the creation of jobs. Since February 2011, the Financial Services Committee has convened 36 hearings and received testimony from 184 witnesses.
"The latest jobs report underscores the importance of our efforts to thoroughly review government policies, especially the hundreds of new regulations being imposed on job creators because of the Dodd-Frank Act. In my conversations with job creators they routinely cite lack of credit, the burden of government policies, and uncertainty over future regulations as the main reasons why they are not hiring," said Chairman Bachus.
The Committee schedule remains 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. Hearing witnesses will be announced at later dates.