House to explore Financial Stability Oversight Council's annual report

The House Financial Services Committee will hold a hearing Wednesday to hear the annual report of the Financial Stability Oversight Council.

The Council, created under the Dodd-Frank financial reform law, released its 2012 annual report on Wednesday. The report found the U.S. financial system has rebounded since 2009, but still faces challenges due to stress in Europe.

It also said federal regulators should continue to pursue reforms so the U.S. financial system can survive potential threats from Europe and the United States.

Also next week, the House Foreign Relations Committee will hold a hearing on human-rights abuses in China, and the House Homeland Security Committee will meet to discuss the "threat landscape" facing the United States.

Details on these and other key hearings follow:

House Education and the Workforce

Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions

July 25, "Examining Proposals to Strengthen the National Labor Relations Act"
10 a.m., 2175 Rayburn House Office Building

House Energy and Commerce

Subcommittee on Environment and the Economy

July 24, "NRC Policy and Governance Oversight"
10 a.m., 2123 Rayburn House Office Building

House Financial Services

July 25, "The Annual Report of the Financial Stability Oversight Council"
9:30 a.m., 2128 Rayburn House Office Building

House Foreign Relations

July 25, "Investigating the Chinese Threat, Part Two: Human Rights Abuses, Torture and Disappearances"
10 a.m., 2172 Rayburn House Office Building

House Homeland Security

July 25, "Understanding the Homeland Threat Landscape"
10 a.m., 311 Cannon House Office Building

House Judiciary

July 24, hearing on H.R. 3179, the Marketplace Equity Act
10 a.m., 2141 Rayburn House Office Building

House Natural Resources

July 24, "The Impact of Catastrophic Forest Fires and Litigation on People and Endangered Species: Time for Rational Management of our Nation's Forests"
10 a.m., 1324 Longworth House Office Building

July 25, "Investigation of President Obama's Gulf Drilling Moratorium: Questioning Key Department of Interior Officials"
10 a.m., 1324 Longworth House Office Building

House Small Business

July 25, "Tales of Resilience: Small Business Survival in the Recession"
1 p.m., 2360 Rayburn House Office Building

House Veterans Affairs

July 25, "Back from the Battlefield: DOD and VA Collaboration to Assist Servicemembers Returning to Civilian Life"
10 a.m., 2118 Rayburn House Office Building

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