Claim: Operation Choke Point was the focus of the hearing held by the House Financial Services Committee—a US House of Representatives’ committee that oversees all the financial services industry—on April 2014 wherein four months after, a bill that limits the means of law enforcement to restrict access to banking system was introduced as an opposing response.
Evidence: On April 8, 2014, the House Financial Services Committee held a hearing with the general counsels of the federal banking agencies regarding, among other things, Operation Choke Point. In August 2014, U.S. Representative Blaine Luetkemeyer introduced a bill that would limit law enforcement's ability to restrict access to the banking system as a response against Operation Choke Point. The United States House Committee on Financial Services, also referred to as the House Banking Committee and previously known as the Committee on Banking and Currency, is the committee of the United States House of Representatives that oversees the entire financial services industry, including the securities, insurance, banking and housing industries.