Jon Hartley and US House Financial Services Committee Chairman Rep. French Hill discuss Congressman Hill’s background; regulation on housing supply and the recently passed Road to Housing Act; crypto regulation including the GENIUS Act and the CLARITY Act, securities laws, and the Invest Act; as well as banking regulation and the Main Street Capital Access Act.
Recorded on August 20, 2026.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
A ninth-generation Arkansan, Congressman French Hill has represented Arkansas’s Second Congressional District since January 2015. He currently serves as chairman of the House Financial Services Committee in the 119th Congress. Prior to his congressional service, Chairman Hill worked in investments and banking for three decades. Most notably, he was founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Delta Trust & Banking Corporation from 1999 until 2014, when Delta Trust was sold to Simmons Bank.
In 1991, at age 34, President George H. W. Bush appointed Hill as executive secretary of the President’s Economic Policy Council, where he served until 1993. From 1989 to 1991, he served as deputy assistant secretary of the Treasury for corporate finance. For his leadership and service at the Treasury and the White House, Chairman Hill was awarded the Distinguished Service Award by US Secretary of the Treasury Nicholas Brady in January 1993. Earlier, from 1982 to 1984, he served on the staff of US Senator John Tower (R-TX) and the US Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
