Experts from the Treasury Department, Federal Reserve Board, and Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac testified on the mortgage crisis focusing on shady lending and foreclosure practices and…
577 viewsThe Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee voted for a second time on the nomination of Peter Diamond to be member of Federal Reserve Board of Governors. Committee members approved…
9,185 viewsFederal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke and other top financial regulators testified on the implementation of the new financial regulation bill. They said their agencies would work…
518 viewsThe Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee held an oversight hearing on the Securities and Exchange Commission Inspector General’s report titled “Investigation of the SEC’s Response to…
2,072 viewsFederal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke testified in a hearing on the Humphrey-Hawkins Semiannual Monetary Policy Report, current economic conditions, and the outlook for the financial sector…
1,033 viewsThree nominees to the Federal Reserve Board testified a day after the board released a new economic forecast that lowered expectations for economic growth. They talked about the state of…
1,019 viewsThe Senate approved the financial regulations conference report.
View in Congressional Chronicle1,759 viewsThe House-Senate Conference Committee on Financial Regulations legislation reconvened to make changes to the bill voted on the previous week. Senator Scott Brown indicated that he would not…
374 viewsThe House-Senate conference committee on the financial regulations bill wrapped up its work early today following a marathon 20-hour session. The measure passed out of conference on a party…
1,275 viewsHouse and Senate members at a conference committee to propose and vote on various amendments to financial regulations legislation. Topics included liability in financial statements and…
199 viewsHouse and Senate members at a conference committee to propose and vote on various amendments to financial regulations legislation. Debate focused on predatory lending and risk retention…
1,109 viewsHouse and Senate members at a conference committee to propose and vote on various amendments to financial regulations legislation. This portion contains live coverage of evening business…
113 viewsHouse and Senate members at a conference committee to propose and vote on various amendments to financial regulations legislation. This live portion of the hearing was joined in progress…
700 viewsHouse and Senate members at a conference committee to propose and vote on various amendments to financial regulations legislation.
450 viewsHouse and Senate members at a conference committee to propose and vote on various amendments to financial regulations legislation.
504 viewsHouse and Senate members made opening statements at a conference committee to propose and vote on various amendments to financial regulations legislation.
1,069 viewsSenators worked on legislation involving financial regulations. The legislation aims to create a consumer-protection oversight agency under the Federal Reserve, among other provisions.
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