Government Hearings – 2004

2004 0331 - GOV (House) - Working with State Regulators to Increase Insurance Choices for Consumers
- [PDF-205p, VIDEO-?] - <mp3, mp4> - R
- CFA - J. Robert Hunter, Director of Insurance, Consumer Federation of America
  - One would be, for example, term life insurance, I think you could totally deregulate.
    - And people understand term life insurance and so on.
  - You get into some of the cash value products, people are very confused.
    - They need help. They need information. It is a very difficult product.
- House - Committee on Financial Serices - Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Insurance and Government Sponsored Enterprises

2004 0713 - GOV (Senate) - Examination of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act Five Years After Its Passage
- Error - VIDEO - banking.senate.gov/hearings/examination-of-the-gramm-leach-bliley-act-five-years-after-its-passage
- Senate - Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee

2004 0909 - GOV (House) - G.I. Finances: Protecting Those Who Protect Us, Richard Baker (R-LA) --- [BonkNote]
- [PDF-176p, VIDEO-?]
- ACLI - Testimony - Frank Keating - 6p
- House - Financial Services Committee - Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Insurance, and Government Sponsored Enterprises

2004 0922 - GOV (Senate) - Examination and Oversight of the Condition and Regulation of the Insurance Industry, Richard Shelby (R-AL) --- [BonkNote]
- [PDF-104p, VIDEO - Error] - <mp3, mp4> - R
- ACLI / Prudential - Arthur F. Ryan, Chairman, American Council of Life Insurers and Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Prudential Financial
- CFA - J. Robert Hunter, Consumer Federation of America - 31p
- IMSA - Brian K. Atchinson, Executive Director, Insurance Marketplace Standards Association
- NAIC - Gregory Serio, Chair, Government Affairs Task Force, National Association of Insurance Commissioners and Superintendent, New York Department of Insurance
- AIA - USAA - William H. McCartney, Senior Vice President, Government and Industry Relations - 6p
- Error - banking.senate.gov/hearings/examination-and-oversight-of-the-condition-and-regulation-of-the-insurance-industry
- Senate - Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs

2004 1116 - GOV (Senate) - Oversight Hearing on Insurance Brokerage Practices, including Potential Conflicts of Interest and the Adequacy of the Current Regulatory Framework, CSPAN (Insurance Brokerage and Regulation Practices) - Peter G. Fitzgerald (R-IL)
- [PDF-166p, VIDEO-CSPAN] - <mp3, mp4>
- Spitzer Investigations
- Richard Blumenthal (as Attorney General - Connecticut)
  - Currently (as of 2021) Congressman (D-CT)
- John Garamendi - as Insurance Commissioner California
- Gregory Serio - Superintendent of Insurance, State of New York, on behalf of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners
- Eliot Spitzer - Attorney General - New York
- CFA - J. Robert Hunter, Director of Insurance, Consumer Federation of America
  - Complexity produces weak regulation, Unleash the FTC, Anti-trust, Cartel rating organizations, Spitzer report - Regulators have utterly failed,
- Senate - Committee on Governmental Affairs - Subcommittee Financial Management, The Budget, And International Security