Lawmakers from both major parties in the House of Representatives on Tuesday renewed their attacks on Wall Street's chief regulator over his agency's policies on cryptocurrencies, accusing the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission of hampering the industry's growth. The sometimes heated questioning coincides with mounting election-year political pressure and soaring campaign cash contributions from the industry, which SEC Chair Gary Gensler has described as rife with criminality and other non-compliance leading to steep investor losses. All five of the SEC's members appeared on Tuesday at a hearing of the U.S. House Financial Services Committee, only the third time this has happened in the past 17 years, allowing Republican commissioners to voice dissent alongside its majority Democratic members.