Rep. Randy Neugebauer (R-TX), who chairs the House Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations in the House Financial Services committee, writes up a hatchet job on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in today’s Wall Street Journal. He’s really concerned about the CFPB’s salary structure: Pursuant to the Dodd-Frank Act, the bureau’s director may set and adjust [...]

The Treasury Department will delay their report on how to deal with the mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Originally scheduled for the end of the month, it will now get released in mid-February. Republicans grumbled about the “great concern” over the delay in the release. But their concern, if anything, is connected to [...]