房屋金融服务委员会主席巴尼弗兰克（D-MA）宣布，本集团将于1月22日星期五举行聆讯。22探讨了对顶级美国金融公司的“过度”赔偿的监管措施。In a statement delivered on Wednesday, Frank outlined the key issues to be discussed, which included: shareholder ‘say on pay’, excessive bonuses, risk-incentivizing bonuses, marginal tax rate on bonuses, possibly restricting the size and activity of financial firms, and other hot issues that have arisen following the massive government bailouts top firms received.
该听证会在众议院通过新的赔偿条例作为华尔街改革和消费者保护法案的一部分之后。在他宣布听证会上，弗兰克还提高了次要问题，这表明由于监管而导致金融公司的活动潜在减少不会是“一件不好的事情”，并质疑为什么不“有足够的公司借钱，“仍然透露出”大量奖金“。根据弗兰克，议程还包括“公司治理;住房融资包括GSE，联邦房屋贷款银行，Fannie Mae，Freddie Mac。“