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The House Financial Services Subcommittees on Capital Markets, Insurance and Government Sponsored Enterprises and Oversight and Investigations hold a joint hearing titled “Protecting America…

The House Financial Services Committee held a hearing entitled “Sarbanes-Oxley at Four: Protecting Investors and Strengthening the Markets.”

Top leaders in the insurance field testified about stabilizing insurance markets for coastal consumers. Topics included assessing the natural catastrophe insurance marketplace, working towar…

Insurance company executives and others testifed about the effects of natural disasters such as Hurricane Katrina on the U.S. insurance markets for homeowners and whether that market is prep…

Witnesses testified about real estate sales over the Internet, market practices by realtors, brokerage fees for Internet sales, and the impact of Internet real estate services on the housing…

Undersecretary Levey testified about a secret program to track terrorist financing and the fact that information about this tracking program was published in The New York Times. He said the …

Mr. Lockhart reviewed the final report by the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight on the accounting irregularities at Fannie Mae home mortgage corporation. Topics included the reg…

Witnesses testified about the real estate title insurance marketplace and the need to create more competition and efficiency for consumers. Topics included kickbacks from title insurance com…

The House Financial Services Committee held an oversight hearing on the results of a recent investigation of accounting and corporate governance problems at Fannie Mae. The committee reviewe…

House Financial Services Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity held a hearing on Gulf Coast rebuilding. Donald Powell, Federal Coordinator for Gulf Coast Rebuilding in the Depart…

The House Financial Services Subcommittee on Domestic and International Monetary Policy, Trade and Technology held a hearing on operations of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the Unite…

Witnesses testified about hurricane disaster recovery efforts along the Gulf Coast, financing recovery and rebuilding programs, the Louisiana Recovery Corporation Act, and future needs in th…

Regulators and others testified in an oversight hearing of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac government-sponsored mortgage enterprises. Problems in such enterprises and the improvement of oversight…

The House Financial Services Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity conducted an oversight hearing of the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP). Witnesses testified about issues…

Financial institution officials from the areas devastated by Hurricane Katrina testify about their responses to the situation.

The House Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity held a hearing on emergency housing needs following Hurricane Katrina. The Housing relief efforts can be categorized into three ar…

The House Financial Services Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity held a hearing on flood map modernization and the future of the National Flood Insurance program. Among the top…

Chairman Greenspan presented to the committee the Federal Reserve Board’s semiannual report on monetary policy. He said the Federal Reserve would keep raising interest rates. He gave a posit…

The committee held a hearing on a report prepared by the Treasury Department titled, gAssessment of the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act of 2002. h Secretary Snow testified about the report, t…

The House Financial Services Committee held a hearing on data security and privacy issues. Witnesses focused on recent security breaches involving unauthorized access to online user records,…