Senate Senators Senate  Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee Subcommittee on Securities, Insurance, and Investment Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Protection Finance Subcommittee on Taxation and Debt Management Committee Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee on Finance Subcommittee on Private Retirement Plans and Oversight of the Internal…

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CBO – Congressional Budget Office cbo.gov Douglas Holtz-Eakin 2003-2005 – Director of the Congressional Budget Office  Life insurers, whose liabilities are generally more liquid than their assets, are particularly vulnerable to runs by policyholders.  (page x) 1994 04 – CBO – The Economic Impact of a Solvency Crisis in the Insurance Industry, Congressional Budget Office  — …

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Military Diana B. Henriques – New York Times 2005 1117 – GOV (Senate) – A Review Of The GAO Report On The Sale Of Financial Products To Military Personnel  —  [BonkNote]  —  [PDF-89p]   Military Sales Working Group – NAIC Model 568: Military sales practices model regulation – 8p 2010 0728 – NPR (All Things Considered) -…

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Optional Federal Charter 2007 1214 – CRS – Insurance Regulation: Optional Federal Charter Legislation – 16p 2004 – AP – Consumer Ramifications of an Optional Federal Charter for Life Insurers, Sheila Bair – 273p Chart – p262 2008 – SOA – Optional Federal Charter (OFC)—Another Acronym, Another Concern, By Norman E. HIll – 5p “OFC proposal”…

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FCIC – Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission FCIC – Index 2011 01 – FCIC – Final Report of the National Commission on the Causes of the Financial and Economic Crisis in the United States – 663p fcic.law.stanford.edu/report///Index Conclusions of The Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission – 14p Appendix B: Life of Hearings and Witnesses – 8p The Financial Crisis…

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Congressional Record The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress beginning with the Forty-Third Congress in 1873, published daily when Congress is in session. Predecessors – Annals of Congress, Register of Debates, and Congressional Globe. govinfo.gov///GPO-CRECB-1971-pt10-4-2.pdf 1983 – Congressional Record congress.gov///GPO-CRECB-1984-pt6-6-2.pdf congress.gov///CREC-2010-07-14-senate.pdf Daily Digest congress.gov/congressional-record Tax…

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Systemic Risk – Government Hearings (p26) – Spencer Bachus (R-AL):  Now, we are asking the Fed—Mr. Bartlett, I think you will agree that the President’s Working Group in 1988 and then this Congress in 1991 actually directed the Treasury and the Fed to look at systemic risk and see what sort of powers they ought…

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DOJ – Department of Justice justice.gov/ https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndil/pr/23-defendants-charged-participating-26-million-life-insurance-fraud-scheme 1977 – DOJ – The Pricing and Marketing of Insurance: A Report of the U.S. Department of Justice to the Task Group on Antitrust Immunities – [PDF-372p-GooglePlay] 1977 – DOJ – Report of the U.S. Department of Justice to the Task Group on Antitrust Immunities – [PDF-81p-GooglePlay] 2009 0728…

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Government Structure TNEC – Temporary National Economic Committee June 16, 1938 – April 3, 1941 Pecora Commission House Committees Energy and Commerce – energycommerce.house.gov/subcommittees  Consumer Protection and Commerce Financial Services Consumer Protection and Financial Institutions Investor Protection, Entrepreneurship and Capital Markets Ways and Means wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_Committee_on_Financial_Services#Subcommittees Senate Committees Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Financial Institutions and…

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Congress Informed Policymakers 1987 0421, 0428, and 0429 – GOV (House) – Current State of the Liability Insurance Crisis [PDF- 313p-GooglePlay, VIDEO-?] Chairman LAFALCE. The insurance industry did not like that, and therefore they got enough Members of Congress to support their position. Mr. OLIVER (Chairman of the FTC) – I think that is correct.…

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