INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND

Articles and editorials

Free Pass for the Indispensable Man, S812 [26JA]

Bills and resolutions

Dept. of the Treasury: direct U.S. representatives to the IMF and World Bank to condition loans to Antigua and Barbuda on cooperation with efforts to provide redress to Stanford Financial Group fraud victims (see S. Res. 362), S12008 [30NO]

Foreign trade: clarify that fundamental exchange-rate misalignment by any foreign nation is actionable under U.S. countervailing and antidumping duty laws (see S. 1027), S5435 [13MY] (see H.R. 2378), H5580 [13MY]

Multilateral development banks: authorize U.S. participation in, and appropriations for, African Development Fund and Mulitlateral Debt Relief Initiative, require budgetary disclosures, and endorse certain principles (see S. 955), S5013 [1MY]

Taxation: provide same penalty rate for taxpayers who disclose unreported income from offshore accounts as was given Sec. of the Treasury Geithner relative to failure to pay certain taxes (see H.R. 4172), H13465 [2DE]

Letters

IMF funding: R. Bruce Josten, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, S5784 [21MY]

———several former National Security Advisers and cabinet members, S5665 [20MY]

Remarks in House

Dept. of the Treasury: prohibit funding to negotiate an agreement in contravention of certain laws, H7907, H7908 [9JY]

Economy: report comparing economic crises in Japan and Sweden, H1084 [10FE]

Funding, H6240, H6241, H6258-H6260 [4JN], H6544, H6548, H6597 [11JN], H6850, H6867-H6870 [16JN], E1390 [12JN], E1485 [18JN]

Geithner, Sec. of the Treasury: impact of previous self-employment tax errors on suitability to be Sec. of the Treasury, H2826-H2832 [25FE], H5701 [18MY]

———payment of penalties relative to previous self-employment tax errors, H12016 [28OC], H13378-H13383 [1DE]

Geithner, Timothy F.: impact of previous self-employment tax errors on suitability to be Sec. of the Treasury, H506 [26JA], H1023 [4FE]

Remarks in Senate

Developing countries: oppose loans that do not exempt certain spending by governments of heavily indebted poor countries from certain budget caps and restraints, S5675 [20MY]

Funding, S5664-S5666 [20MY], S5782-S5787 [21MY]

Geithner, Timothy F.: impact of previous self-employment tax errors on suitability to be Sec. of the Treasury, S800, S801, S805-S817 [26JA], S886 [27JA]

Presidential appointments: nominations considered and confirmed en bloc, S4293 [2AP]

Reports filed

African Development Fund Replenishment Act: Committee on Foreign Relations (Senate) (S. 955) (S. Rept. 111-51), S7639 [16JY]

Nomination of Sec. of the Treasury Geithner to International Monetary Organizations: Committee on Foreign Relations (Senate), S4061 [31MR]

Texts of

S. Res. 362, Dept. of the Treasury direction of U.S. representatives to the IMF and World Bank to condition loans to Antigua and Barbuda on cooperation with efforts to provide redress to Stanford Financial Group fraud victims, S12012 [30NO]