Obama, bank president: Home loans by decree
The Union Leader-Editorial
April 4, 2013 7:10pm
As the economy struggles to recover from a recession triggered in large part by a collapse in the housing market, which itself was caused in large part by too many people signing mortgages they could not afford, the White House is urging banks to lower their lending standards so that Americans… Read more »
Pay Ratio Provision Not Worth Cost, Repeal Bill Sponsor Huizenga Says
Bloomberg BNA - Mary Hughes | March 20, 2013 08:32PM ET
(BNA) -- The pay ratio disclosure requirement of Section 953(b) of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act is a “perfect example of an unnecessary and complex regulatory requirement that is not worth the cost and should be repealed,”… Read more »
This week, Congressman Bill Huizenga (MI-02) introduced the Consumer Mortgage Choice Act - H.R. 1077, a bipartisan piece of legislation that would amend and clarify the qualified mortgage definition in the Dodd-Frank Act thereby improving access to credit and qualified mortgages for low and moderate income borrowers while protecting consumers from bad loans:
"This bipartisan legislation… Read more »
Bill Huizenga Q&A on the insanity of sequestration
Mlive - Matt Vande Bunte
March 11, 2013
GRAND RAPIDS, MI – What’s more insane, gashing federal spending by sequestration or continuing to spend money the country does not have?
After two years representing Michigan’s Second Congressional District, U.S. Rep. Bill Huizenga, R-Zeeland, said gridlock in Washington, D.C. isn’t… Read more »
Congressman Bill Huizenga (MI-02) released the following statement after learning President Obama has decided to close the White House to the general public:
"It is simply embarrassing that President Obama would decide to close the doors of the White House to the general public, while allowing 'pay to play' access for his friends and high-paying donors. The notion that modest across… Read more »
Congressman Bill Huizenga (MI-02) released the following statement on the national unemployment report for January:
"It's time for the Administration to change its approach to the economy. The unemployment rate is higher today than when the President first took office in 2009. President Obama has had four years to implement his stimulus driven approach and it simply has not worked. At… Read more »
Huizenga mobile office hours Wednesday in Hart and Ludington
Ludington Daily News
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Today, Congressman Bill Huizenga, R-Zeeland, reminded residents he will have mobile office this week for Lake, Mason, Newaygo and Oceana Counties. Huizenga's staff will be on hand at the following locations to assist residents with casework concerning federal tax issues,… Read more »
Huizenga Nabs Leadership Role on Fiscal Policy
MLive - Zane McMillan
January 24, 2013
From MLive's coverage:
"Rep. Bill Huizenga of Zeeland, also now in his second term, announced Thursday he'd been named vice chairman of the House Financial Services Committee's monetary policy and trade subcommittee.
Huizenga said he also was named to the subcommittee on capital markets and… Read more »
Yesterday, at the Financial Services Committee organizational meeting, Congressman Bill Huizenga (MI-02) was nominated Vice Chairman of the Subcommittee on Monetary Policy and Trade (MPT). MPT is one of five subcommittees of the prestigious Financial Services Committee. As Vice Chair, Congressman Huizenga will assist Subcommittee Chairman John Campbell (CA-45) in running committee… Read more »
Congressman Bill Huizenga (MI-02) released the following statement after President Obama signed the Congressman's legislation, H.R. 4014, into law. H.R. 4014 provides hard-working taxpayers and their businesses who submit information to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) with the same confidentiality provisions that other financial regulators are required to provide:
"This… Read more »
