3.0.0 400 2017-12-13T21:38:09Z 2017-12-13T21:38:09Z Senate S S 2009-02-09 111 ssbk00 Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2009-02-09T23:44:59Z 2009-02-09 ssbk00 Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. IntroReferral 2009-02-09 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress S000033 Sen. Sanders, Bernard [I-VT] Bernard Sanders I VT N B000944 Sen. Brown, Sherrod [D-OH] Sherrod Brown D OH 2009-02-09 True B001265 Sen. Begich, Mark [D-AK] Mark Begich D AK 2009-02-09 True W000802 Sen. Whitehouse, Sheldon [D-RI] Sheldon Whitehouse D RI 2009-04-01 False Finance and Financial Sector Banking and financial institutions regulation Commodities markets Congressional oversight Credit and credit markets Financial crises and stabilization Financial services and investments Government corporations and government-sponsored enterprises Housing finance and home ownership Securities Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Finance and Financial Sector 00 2009-02-09 Introduced in Senate 2009-04-16T20:29:05Z Financial Crisis Investigation Act of 2009 - Amends the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 (EESA) to direct the Oversight Panel of the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) to: (1) investigate all causes, domestic and global, of the current financial and economic crisis in the United States, including the collapse of major financial and commercial firms and the deterioration of the credit and housing markets; (2) investigate the role in the financial and economic crisis, if any, of specified governmental and private sector entities; (3) review the nation's existing financial regulatory structure from top to bottom, and its contribution to the stability or instability of financial markets; (4) review all aspects of financial regulation; and (5) refer to federal and state law enforcement officials any person that the Oversight Panel finds may have violated federal law in relation to such crisis.

Requires the Oversight Panel to report its findings, conclusions, and recommendations to the President and Congress.

]]> Financial Crisis Investigation Act of 2009 Short Titles as Introduced Financial Crisis Investigation Act of 2009 Display Title Financial Crisis Investigation Act of 2009 Official Title as Introduced A bill to expand the authority and responsibilities of the Oversight Panel of the Troubled Asset Relief Program, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate 2009-02-09T05:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-111s400is/xml/BILLS-111s400is.xml 2009-02-09 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.