FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE ACT

Bills and resolutions

Dept. of the Treasury: require financial institutions receiving assistance under the Troubled Asset Relief Program to report increases in new lending that are attributable to such assistance (see H.R. 387), H159 [9JA]

———restrict which assets banks can write off as loss under the Troubled Asset Relief Program (see H.R. 421), H161 [9JA]

Education: provide for deposit restricted qualified tuition programs (see H.R. 3599), H9729 [17SE] (see H.R. 4178), H13466 [2DE]

FDIC: increase borrowing authority (see S. 541), S2828 [5MR]

———limit authority to engage in activities relating to systemic risk without a congressional declaration of a financial emergency (see H.R. 2657), H6074 [2JN]

———require appropriate Federal banking agencies to prescribe capital standards for certain special purpose entities (see H.R. 2660), H6074 [2JN]

Financial institutions: authorize depository institutions and holding companies to lease foreclosed property held by such institutions and companies (see H.R. 2529), H5891 [20MY]

———make permanent the temporary increase in deposit insurance coverage (see H.R. 786), H875 [2FE]

———modify requirements on the location of bank branches on Indian reservations (see S. 1316), S6887 [22JN]

———provide more effective reviews of losses in the Deposit Insurance Fund and the Share Insurance Fund (see H.R. 3330), H8808 [24JY]

Securities: treat covered bonds the same as other qualified financial contracts to which a depository institution is a party when such institution is in receivership or conservatorship (see H.R. 2896), H6903 [16JN]

Letters

Allow temporary waiver of State interest rate limit: Arkansas congressional delegation, S6778 [18JN]

———Mike Beebe, Governor of Arkansas, S6777 [18JN]

———Toby Rittner, Council of Development Finance Agencies, S6778 [18JN]

FDIC borrowing authority: Ben S. Bernanke, FRS, S2849 [5MR]

———Sheila C. Bair, FDIC, S2849 [5MR], H3022 [5MR]

———Timothy F. Geithner, Sec. of the Treasury, S2849 [5MR]

Improved Oversight by Financial Inspectors General Act: Jon T. Rymer, FDIC, H8970 [29JY]

———Jon T. Rymer, FDIC, Eric M. Thorson, Dept. of the Treasury, and Elizabeth A. Coleman, FRS, H8969 [29JY]

Remarks in House

Dept. of the Treasury: require financial institutions receiving assistance under the Troubled Asset Relief Program to use such funds to lend money and engage in mortgage workouts, H53, H57 [7JA], H144 [9JA], H188-H191 [13JA], H508 [26JA]

———restrict which assets banks can write off as loss under the Troubled Asset Relief Program (H.R. 421), H298 [14JA]

Education: provide for deposit restricted qualified tuition programs (H.R. 3599), E2305 [17SE]

FDIC: increase borrowing authority, H3022 [5MR]

Financial institutions: authorize depository institutions and holding companies to lease foreclosed property held by such institutions and companies (H.R. 2529), H6371 [9JN], H8971-H8973 [29JY]

———make permanent the temporary increase in deposit insurance coverage, H2970 [4MR], H3018 [5MR]

———provide more effective reviews of losses in the Deposit Insurance Fund and the Share Insurance Fund (H.R. 3330), H8967-H8970 [29JY]

Remarks in Senate

FDIC: increase borrowing authority, S3637, S3640 [24MR], S3751, S3757-S3760 [25MR], S5266 [7MY]

———increase borrowing authority (S. 541), S2848 [5MR], S3036 [12MR], S3352 [18MR]

———increase borrowing authority (S. 541), unanimous-consent request, S3352 [18MR]

Financial institutions: amend relative to the extension of certain limitations, S5676 [20MY]

———modify requirements on the location of bank branches on Indian reservations (S. 1316), S6889 [22JN]

States: allow temporary waiver of State interest rate limit, S5475, S5492 [14MY], S6777 [18JN]

Reports

Proposed Amendment to Arkansas State Constitution Relative to State Interest Rate Limit Removal, S6778-S6782 [18JN]

Reports filed

Make Permanent the Temporary Increase in Deposit Insurance Coverage: Committee on Financial Services (House) (H.R. 786) (H. Rept. 111-18), H2600 [23FE]

Texts of

H.R. 2529, Neighborhood Preservation Act, H8971 [29JY]

H.R. 3330, Improved Oversight by Financial Inspectors General Act, H8967 [29JY]

S. 541, Depositor Protection Act, S2848 [5MR]