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Treasury Secretary Paulson Testifies before Senate Banking Committee
From Treasury Secretary Paulson's Testimony before the Senate Banking Committee on Turmoil in US Credit Markets: Recent Actions regarding Government Sponsored Entities, Investment Banks and other Financial Institutions, Sept...

SEC Nominees Appear Before Senate Banking Committee
The Senate Banking Committee questioned the three nominees to the SEC yesterday -- Democrats Luis Aguiler and Elisse Walter and Republican Troy Paredes -- so perhaps they will be confirmed shortly so that the SEC can be at full membership...

Cox Testifies on Ratings Agencies
Chair Christopher Cox testified today on The State of the United States Economy and Financial Markets before the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs. Below are excerpts from his testimony on the SEC's examination of the role...

SEC's Cox Testifies on Bear Stearns Collapse
Here is Chair Cox's Testimony Concerning Recent Events in the Credit Markets Before the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs on April 3, 2008, where he noted that for the first time, a major investment bank that...

Senate Banking Committee Looks at SEC Oversight
A subcommittee of the Senate Banking Committee will hold a hearing tomorrow on the SEC's oversight of investment firms. The focus is likely to be the SEC's CSE (consolidated supervised entity) program that regulates the large firms from the holding...

Bernanke's Testimony Before Senate Banking Committee
From Chairman Ben S. Bernanke's Testimony on U.S. financial markets, before the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, U.S. Senate, September 23, 2008; At this juncture, in light of the fast-moving developments in financial markets, it is essential to...

Foreign Investment and National Security Act of 2007
Strengthens examination requirements of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States