The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has been feeling the heat over the size of its proposed rule to streamline and integrate the disclosures consumers get when taking out a home loan, so agency officials engaged in a little bit of push-back last week in an effort to fend off the criticism. The push-back started early in the week during a hearing of the House Small Business Committee, during which Rep. Scott Tipton, R-CO, took issue with the rulemaking’s size that exceeded 1,000 pages in draft form, a fraction of which is new...