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The CFPB was born out of the Dodd-Frank Act with the purpose of protecting the average American from the big bad wolf – the wolf of Wall Street, that is – and the banks that have been blamed for causing the Great Recession.
The reality, however, according to groups that solely support credit unions, is that the CFPB is hurting the small institutions that have nothing to do with causing 2008's economic crash.
The United States and other world powers reached a historic agreement with Iran on Tuesday that calls for limits on Tehran's nuclear program in exchange for scaling back economic sanctions.
While President Barack Obama said that the landmark deal "stopped the spread of nuclear weapons" in the region, Texas Republican leaders expressed their concerns about the agreement.
In the 54th Annual Roll Call Congressional Baseball Game, Republicans are hoping to break their Democratic rivals' winning streak.
The six straight losses weighed on the GOP players' minds as they trudged to this year's 6:30 a.m. practices. "In some form or fashion it comes up every day," Rep. Ryan Costello, R-Pa., said of the losing streak. He said a common refrain among players is, "We need to win one this year. We need to get back on track."
The skies alternated between hints of sunshine and cloud cover Monday morning but the rain held off, allowing more than 100 to gather in the Cleburne Cemetery for a Memorial Day Remembrance ceremony.
Residents milled with U.S. Rep. Roger Williams, R-Austin, Cleburne Mayor Scott Cain, Johnson County Sheriff Bob Alford, Cleburne Fire Chief Clint Ishmael, members of the Cleburne Police Department and other dignitaries before the ceremony began.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Roger Williams (R-Texas), a member of the House Financial Services Committee, has been selected to serve on the committee's Task Force to Investigate Terrorism Financing.
Area's representatives in Washington weigh in on sequestration
Posted: Sunday, May 17, 2015 4:30 am
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by Jacob Brooks
After years of losses at the Roll Call Congressional Baseball Game, Republicans have announced a team coach in hopes of righting the ship, but their embattled manager remains at the helm.
Rep. Roger Williams, R-Texas, announced Thursday he was named the coach for the GOP, which suffered its sixth-straight loss to Democrats in 2014, 15-6. According to Williams' spokesperson, Rep. Joe L. Barton, R-Texas, will remain the team's manager, and Barton will still decide who plays and where.
As a young boy, Roger Williams wanted to be a baseball player when he grew up.
But the late former U.S. House Speaker Jim Wright of Fort Worth suggested another path.
The two first met when Williams was a 9-year-old boy and Wright was a congressman. After Williams said he wanted to play baseball, Wright suggested a backup plan.
"If you don't become a baseball player, go into politics and don't do something small, do something big — like run for Congress," Williams recalled Wright telling him.
Former House Speaker Jim Wright, who rose to lead the chamber after more than three decades in office only to resign two years into his speakership amid an ethics investigation, died Wednesday morning in Fort Worth, Texas, at the age of 92.
Rep. Roger Williams (R-Texas) first met Wright in 1958, when Williams' parents were holding a fundraiser for Wright at their home. Williams recalled in an interview Wednesday that upon shaking his hand, Wright asked him: What do you want to be when you grow up?
WASHINGTON — Just the word fundraising elicits groans or slumped shoulders from most politicians. It's drudgery for them — a despised but necessary task.
But U.S. Rep. Roger Williams of Austin, a lifelong salesman and an old hand in Texas fundraising, is an exception.
"I'm one of those weirdos that lives to raise money," Williams said. "I've been in this business forever."
So when colleagues approached him to be the new chairman of the House Conservatives Fund, a political action committee for conservative candidates, Williams jumped at the opportunity.