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The Banking, Finance & Urban Affairs Subcommittee heard testimony from housing industry officials and federal and state administrators on federal standards for prefabricated housing. Manufac…

House Banking Finance and Urban Affairs Committee held a hearing on the "State of the Thrift Depositor Program". The committee heard testimony in a semi-annual hearing on the security of cus…

The House Banking Subcommittee addressed the issue of whether the nation’s monetary policy becomes politicized during an election year.

The House Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs Committee heard testimony on the U.S. foreign policy concerning Iraq prior to Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait in mid-1990. Specifically, the committee…

The committee heard testimony on H.R.4803, the Nonproliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction and Regulatory Improvement Act of 1992, which would attempt to control the spread of nuclear we…

The House Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs subcommittees on Consumer Affairs and Housing and Urban Development heard testimony on discrepancies in the granting of mortgages to applicants o…

The committee heard testimony on the performance of the Office of Thrift Supervision in regulating the nation’s savings and loans. Earlier in the week, President Bush extended a moratorium o…

House Banking Subcommittee looks at the Impact of the Budget deficit and asks the witnesses questions.

Part 2 of the House Banking Subcommittee hearing on Resolution Trust Corporation Funding. The RTC was a US government owned asset management company that would liquidate assets, primarily …

Members of the House Banking subcommittee on Financial Institutions spoke on the funding for the Resolution Trust Corporation, which was responsible for liquidating the assets of failed savi…

Members of the Resolution Trust Corporation board discussed the status of the savings and loan bailout. The RTC was the agency responsible for managing and disposing of assets belonging to t…

Members of the General Oversight and Investigations Panel convened to look at the relationship of Arizona Governor Fife Symington with the Southwest Savings and Loan Association, and the pur…

Alan Greenspan, Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, spoke to the House Banking Subcommittee on Domestic and Monetary Policy about the nation’s troubled economy. He expressed his optimism …

The subcommittee heard testimony on proposals to encourage economic growth.

The committee continued hearing testimony on economic conditions in Bridgeport.

The committee is holding a series of field hearings on problems in the U.S. economy. The first hearing was held in Bridgeport, Connecticut, an industrial, coastal city whose mayor last year …

Last month in Baltimore the National Examiners Conference met to discuss new, secret, bank examination standards. The Bush administration refused to allow representatives of the House Bankin…

House Banking Committee marked up several bank overhaul proposals have made their way through the Congress this year. None have passed, however, and the committee is still looking for ways t…

Members of the House Banking Committee debated amendments to bank legislation that would allow the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation to borrow up to $30 billion from the Federal Treasury…

The subcommittee heard testimony from several economists on proposals to manipulate monetary policy to revive the sluggish American economy. Witnesses testified on interest rate changes, man…