Rep. Andy Barr (R-Ky.) today introduced the ABA-advocated Portfolio Lending and Mortgage Access Act (H.R. 2226). The bill would expand access to mortgage credit by treating loans originated by a bank and held in portfolio as Qualified Mortgages—a key provision in ABA’s Blueprint for Growth.

Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer (R-Mo.) yesterday introduced the ABA-advocated CLEARR Act (H.R. 2133), which would provide relief from certain rules and regulations for community banks.

The House Financial Services Committee today held a hearing on the Financial Choice Act, Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling’s (R-Texas) sweeping, 600-page bill aimed at reforming parts of the Dodd-Frank Act’s extensive supervisory regime and providing regulatory relief for banks.

House Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling (R-Texas) today released the latest legislative text of his Financial Choice Act, a 600-page bill aimed at rolling back and reforming parts of the Dodd-Frank Act’s extensive supervisory regime, as well as providing regulatory relief for banks of all sizes.

ABA today urged the leaders of the Senate Banking Committee to focus on expanding portfolio mortgage lending, modernizing rules on brokered deposits, enhancing bank innovation and providing relief from unnecessary stress tests -- all of which would be bipartisan, common-sense policies to promote economic growth.

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and his leadership team today hosted a diverse group of community bankers to discuss unnecessary and outdated regulations that are hindering economic growth and making it more difficult for banks to serve their customers and communities.

The biggest obstacle in the way of banks’ ability to create jobs and grow the economy is a framework of overly prescriptive rules and “one-size-fits-all” regulations, ABA Chairman Dorothy Savarese wrote in a Fox Business op-ed today.

Excessive regulation discourages investors from launching de novo banks, thus reducing capacity for economic growth and financial choices for consumers and businesses across the country, ABA Chairman-Elect Ken Burgess said in congressional testimony today.

In an op-ed in The Hill newspaper today, ABA President and CEO Rob Nichols fought back at the notion that “everything’s just fine” in the banking sector and that no regulatory relief is needed.

Speaking to ABA's Mutual Community Bank Forum today, Rep. Keith Rothfus (R-Pa.) announced that he has reintroduced legislation that would help mutual banks increase their capital levels.