FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM

Bills and resolutions

Board of Governors: permit members to be appointed for more than one term of office (see H.R. 3720), H7813 [8SE]

Economy: mandate price stability as the primary goal of the monetary policy of the Board of Governors and the Federal Open Market Committee (see H.R. 498), H285 [1FE]

Financial institutions: increase interaccount transfers from business accounts and require the FRS to pay interest on certain reserves (see S. 1586), S9467 [29JY]

———provide emergency authority to guarantee checks cashed by insured depository institutions and credit unions for noncustomers who are victims of certain hurricanes (see H.R. 3909), H8386 [27SE]

———repeal prohibition on payment of interest on demand deposits (see H.R. 1224), H1368 [10MR]

Letters

Commodity Exchange Act amendments to promote legal certainty, enhance competition, and reduce systemic risk in markets for futures and over-the-counter derivatives, H11558 [14DE]

Maintain BLS statistical measures that accurately reflect the women's workforce: Joseph S. Tracy, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, S11904 [26OC]

Presidential $1 Coin Act, H11451 [13DE]

Remarks in House

Bernanke, Ben S.: nomination to be Federal Reserve Board Chair, H9280 [27OC]

Economy: national objectives priority assignments, H8062 [15SE]

Financial institutions: repeal prohibition on payment of interest on demand deposits (H.R. 1224), H3738, H3740 [23MY], E1070, E1083 [24MY]

Remarks in Senate

Indian Health Service: funding through transfer of certain FRS surplus funds, S7561, S7562 [29JN]

Interest rates: impact on economic conditions, S7806 [30JN]

Reports filed

Business Checking Freedom Act: Committee on Financial Services (House) (H.R. 1224) (H. Rept. 109-81), H3330 [16MY]

Hurricane Check Cashing Relief Act: Committee on Financial Services (House) (H.R. 3909) (H. Rept. 109-326), H11108 [6DE]

Nomination of Ben S. Bernanke To Be FRS Board of Governors Chairman: Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs (Senate), S12949 [16NO]

Nomination of Ben S. Bernanke to the FRS Board of Governors: Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs (Senate), S12949 [16NO]

Texts of

H.R. 1224, Business Checking Freedom Act, H3738 [23MY]