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