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Witnesses testified before the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee on the increase the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation premiums to protect the bank insurance fund.

The committee heard Mr. Seidman’s testimony on the deals entered into by the Federal Home Loan Bank in 1988 to resolve the problems of the savings & loan institutions.

Witnesses testified at the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee hearing titled “Bank & Thrift Accounting Practices” about depositor insurance in light of the savings and loan…

The Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Subcommittee met and discussed the progress of the Department of Housing and Urban Development in implementing its oversight responsibilities o…

On Thursday the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee met to examine bank and thrift fraud and the government’s efforts to pursue fraud cases through the criminal justice syst…

Mr. Greenspan announced that the central bank will try and keep the country out of a recession by decreasing interest rates once lawmakers agree on a deficit reduction package. Earlier that …

During this hearing, members of the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee looked at revising the deposit insurance system and restructuring the financial services industry.

The Senate Banking, Housing & Urban Affairs Committee heard testimony on capital markets legislation proposed by President Bush that would transfer jurisdiction of stock index futures from t…

The Senate Banking, Housing & Urban Affairs Special Investigation Subcommittee met to discuss problems uncovered in the Department of Housing and Urban Development and to review a report dis…

Witnesses offered their assessments and outlooks on credit availability and on the rate of growth in commercial, industrial, real estate and short term business loans. Rep. Kennedy read a st…

The committee met to consider the nomination of Joseph Schiff to be Assistant Secretary of Public and Indian Housing. He is currently a special advisor to Secretary Kemp and he manages the d…

The committee met for a semiannual hearing with the oversight board on the Resolution Trust Corporation, which was established in 1989 to dispose of assets of insolvent thrifts taken over by…

The subcommittee met to investigate alleged abuses in programs at the Department of Housing and Urban Development. The investigation has attempted to focus on the statutory, regulatory, and …

Senate Banking, Housing & Urban Affairs Committee held a nomination hearing for Timothy Ryan to be Director of the Office of Thrift Supervision at the Treasury Department.

The committee considered the nomination of Timothy Ryan, Jr. to be Director of the Office of Thrift Supervision at the Treasury Department. That office regulates more than 2600 savings and l…

This was the second in a series of hearings on the reauthorization of the Export Administration Act, which was to expire on September 30, 1990. The law authorizes the president to control th…

The committee reviewed the progress made in implementing a new administration strategy for responding to the third world debt problem, presented by Secretary of the Treasury Nicholas Brady i…

The Senate Banking Subcommittee held a hearing on third world debt. This was the 2nd portion of that hearing.

Senate Banking Housing and Urban Affairs Committee heard testimony on conditions surrounding the collapse of the investment firm Drexel Burnham Lambert which declared bankruptcy last month a…

Part 3 of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, in which the Committee looked into the collapse of Drexel Burnham Lambert. Jerome Kohlberg, Jr., a Partner of Kohlberg …