FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORP. see also Financial Institutions

Articles and editorials

No More Welfare for Banks—The FDIC and the Taxpayer Are the Underwriters of Too Much Private Risk Taking, S5669 [11JY]

Bills and resolutions

Financial institutions: determine appropriate risk-based capital requirements for community, mid-sized, and regional institutions (see H.R. 2547), H4142 [27JN]

——— limit ability of banks to engage in certain risky activities and conflicts of interest and restore certain provisions of law to separate investment banking from commercial banking (see S. 1282), S5667 [11JY] (see H.R. 3711), H7687 [11DE]

——— require a quantitative impact study on cumulative effect of the International Basel III agreement on general risk-based capital requirements for determining risk-weighted assets (see S. 737), S2683 [16AP]

——— require an empirical impact study on proposed rules relative to the International Basel III agreement on general risk-based capital requirements as they apply to community banks (see S. 731), S2683 [16AP] (see H.R. 2295), H3251 [6JN]

Financial services and general Government: making appropriations (see S. 1371), S5968 [25JY] (see H.R. 2786), H4978 [23JY]

Insurance: exclude insurance companies from orderly liquidation authority (see H.R. 605), H431 [8FE]

Office of the Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program: grant authority to oversee independent consultants used to carry out Federal banking agencies’ consent orders (see H.R. 1483), H1955 [11AP]

Securities: waive arbitrage rules for bonds that are partially defeased and issued during a certain period (see H.R. 1197), H1427 [14MR]

Remarks in House

Financial institutions: repeal orderly liquidation authority to prevent failure of large financial firms, H1600 [19MR]

Financial services and general Government: making appropriations, H5777 [20SE], H6077 [1OC]

Remarks in Senate

Financial institutions: limit ability of banks to engage in certain risky activities and conflicts of interest and restore certain provisions of law to separate investment banking from commercial banking (S. 1282), S5668–S5671 [11JY]

Reports filed

Financial Services and General Government Appropriations: Committee on Appropriations (House) (H.R. 2786) (H. Rept. 113–172), H4978 [23JY]

——— Committee on Appropriations (Senate) (S. 1371) (S. Rept. 113–80), S5968 [25JY]