Congressional Documents
Congressional hearings, reports and other publications from the House of Representatives, the Senate, and the Joint Economic Committee of the United States Congress.
Related Topics:- Congressional Inquiries (6 items)
- Monetary Policy Oversight Hearings (Humphrey - Hawkins) (2 items)
- Nomination Hearings (22 items)
Amendments to Federal Deposit Insurance Act: Hearings before a Subcommittee on … S. 80, S. 2094, W. 2300, S. 2307 and S. 2822: Bills to Amend the Federal Deposit Insurance Act, Jan. 11, 23, and 30, 1950
Description:
Transcript from committee hearings on amendments to the Federal Deposit Insurance Act, on January 11, 23, and 30, 1950.
Date:
1950/01/30,
Citation:
United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking and Currency. Subcommittee on Federal Reserve Matters, 1950, Amendments to Federal Deposit Insurance Act: Hearings before a Subcommittee on … S. 80, S. 2094, W. 2300, S. 2307 and S. 2822: Bills to Amend the Federal Deposit Insurance Act, Jan. 11, 23, and 30, 1950, from The Marriner S. Eccles Document Collection, accessed May 25, 2013 from FRASER, http://fraser.stlouisfed.org/docs/historical/eccles/051_04_0004.pdf
Authors:
Analysis of Federal Reserve Discount Window Loans to Failed Institutions
OCLC:
24146036
Citation:
United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs, ([year]), Analysis of Federal Reserve Discount Window Loans to Failed Institutions, [issue title/date], accessed May 25, 2013 from FRASER, http:fraser.stlouisfed.org/publication/?pid=716
Authors:
Topics:
Announcement of the 6th set of hearings for the Joint Economic Committee study of Employment, Growth, and Price Levels
Description:
Schedule for the hearings and names of participants
Date:
07/02/1959,
Citation:
United States. Congress, 1959, Announcement of the 6th set of hearings for the Joint Economic Committee study of Employment, Growth, and Price Levels, from William McChesney Martin Jr. Document Collection, accessed May 25, 2013 from FRASER, http://fraser.stlouisfed.org/docs/historical/martin/25_04_19590702.pdf
Authors:
Anti-inflation Proposals: Hearings before the Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, United States Senate, Ninety-fifth Congress, Second Session, on Oversight on Inflation Policies and Tax-Based Anti-Inflation Proposals, May 22 and 23, 1978
Description:
Hearings before the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. United States Senate. Ninety-fifth Congress. Second session on oversight on inflation policies and tax-based anti-inflation proposals.
OCLC:
4223514
Citation:
United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking and Currency, ([year]), Anti-inflation Proposals: Hearings before the Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, United States Senate, Ninety-fifth Congress, Second Session, on Oversight on Inflation Policies and Tax-Based Anti-Inflation Proposals, May 22 and 23, 1978, [issue title/date], accessed May 25, 2013 from FRASER, http:fraser.stlouisfed.org/publication/?pid=766
Authors:
Topics:
Arab Boycott: Hearing before the Subcommittee on International Finance, Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, Senate, on H.R. 69 and H.R. 92
Description:
Hearings before the Subcommittee on International Finance of the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, United States Senate, Ninety-fifth Congress, first session, on S.69 (to amend and extend the Export Administration Act) and S.92 (to amend and extend the Export Administration Act of 1969 to improve the administration of export controls pursuant to such act, to strengthen the antiboycott provisions of such act, and for other purposes). These hearings took place on February 21, 22 and 28, and March 15, 1977.
SUDOC:
Y 4.B 22/3:Ar 1
OCLC:
3166716
Citation:
United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, ([year]), Arab Boycott: Hearing before the Subcommittee on International Finance, Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, Senate, on H.R. 69 and H.R. 92, [issue title/date], accessed May 25, 2013 from FRASER, http:fraser.stlouisfed.org/publication/?pid=218
Authors:
Topics:
Audit of the Federal Reserve System: Report Together with Supplemental, Additional, Minority and Dissenting Views to Accompany H.R. 7590 ... July 10, 1975
Description:
Report, together with supplemental, additional, minority, and dissenting views, to accompany H.R. 7590 (94th Congress), a bill to authorize and direct the General Accounting Office to audit the Federal Reserve Board, the Federal Advisory Council, the Federal Open Market Committee, and the Federal Reserve banks and their branches.
OCLC:
10476812, 20161562
Citation:
United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking, Currency and Housing, ([year]), Audit of the Federal Reserve System: Report Together with Supplemental, Additional, Minority and Dissenting Views to Accompany H.R. 7590 ... July 10, 1975, [issue title/date], accessed May 25, 2013 from FRASER, http:fraser.stlouisfed.org/publication/?pid=717
Authors:
Topics:
Baby Boomers in Retirement: An Early Perspective
Description:
In response to a request from the Subcommittee on Social Security of the House Ways and Means Committee, this study looks at how the incomes and wealth of baby boomers compare with those of their parents as young adults, assesses the financial health of current retirees as a basis for comparison, and discusses factors that will influence the financial well-being of baby boomers in retirement.
SUDOC:
Y 10.2:B 11
OCLC:
28922956
Citation:
United States. Congressional Budget Office, ([year]), Baby Boomers in Retirement: An Early Perspective, [issue title/date], accessed May 25, 2013 from FRASER, http:fraser.stlouisfed.org/publication/?pid=871
Authors:
Topics:
Banking Act of 1935. Hearings before the Committee on Banking and Currency, House of Representatives, Seventy-fourth Congress, first session, on H.R. 5357, a bill to provide for the sound, effective, and uninterrupted operation of the banking system, and for other purposes.
Description:
This is the corrected print edition of the hearings before the House of Representatives, Committee on Banking and Currency, regarding the Banking Act of 1935. The hearings took place on February 21, 22, 26, 27, 28, March 1, 4, 5, 6, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 25, 26, 27, 28, April 2, 8, 1935. The Banking Act of 1935 reorganized the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, and enlarged the supervisory powers of the FDIC.
These hearings are credited with the first instance the phrase "pushing on a string" was used to describe the limitations of monetary policy. See page 377 of the hearing (page 381 of the PDF).
SUDOC:
Y 4.B 22/1:B 22/3/CORR.
OCLC:
10890727
Citation:
United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking and Currency, ([year]), Banking Act of 1935. Hearings before the Committee on Banking and Currency, House of Representatives, Seventy-fourth Congress, first session, on H.R. 5357, a bill to provide for the sound, effective, and uninterrupted operation of the banking system, and for other purposes., [issue title/date], accessed May 25, 2013 from FRASER, http:fraser.stlouisfed.org/publication/?pid=831
Authors:
Topics:
Banking Act of 1935: Hearings before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Banking and Currency, United States Senate, Seventy-fourth Congress, First Session, on S. 1715 and H.R. 7617, Bills to Provide for the Sound, Effective, and Uninterrupted Operation of the Banking System, and for Other Purposes. Consolidated. April 19 to June 3, 1935.
Description:
Includes testimony by Winthrop Aldrich, Marriner Eccles, Charles Hamlin, Adolph Miller, Henry Morgenthau Jr., Oliver M.W. Sprague, M.S. Szymczak, Frank Vanderlip, James P. Warburg, and Owen D. Young, among other bankers and community leaders. Senators Carter Glass and William G. McAdoo were members of this committee.
The Banking Act of 1935 reorganized the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, and enlarged the supervisory powers of the FDIC.
OCLC:
15274957
Citation:
United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking and Currency, ([year]), Banking Act of 1935: Hearings before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Banking and Currency, United States Senate, Seventy-fourth Congress, First Session, on S. 1715 and H.R. 7617, Bills to Provide for the Sound, Effective, and Uninterrupted Operation of the Banking System, and for Other Purposes. Consolidated. April 19 to June 3, 1935., [issue title/date], accessed May 25, 2013 from FRASER, http:fraser.stlouisfed.org/publication/?pid=778
Authors:
Topics:
Banking Reform Act of 1971: Hearings before the Committee on Banking and Currency, House of Representatives, on H.R. 5700, H.R. 3287, and H.R. 7440
Description:
Hearings before the Committee on Banking and Currency, House of Representatives, ninety-second Congress, first session, on:
H.R. 5700 (the Banking Reform Act of 1971): a bill to prohibit certain conflicts of interest and encourage competition in the banking industry and related fields to provide for restrictions and disclosures with respect to certain loans, to prohibit brokered deposits in banks and other financial institutions, to prohibit the use of giveaways in the solicitation of deposits, to permit full deposit insurance for government depositors, and for other purposes.
H.R. 3287: a bill to prohibit federally insured banks from making loans to provide for the purchase of bank stock, and for other purposes.
and H.R. 7440: a bill to clarify the authority of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board to regulate conflicts of interest in the operation of insured savings and loan associations, and for other purposes.
The Banking Reform Act of 1971 sought to enhance competition among financial institutions, reduce concentrations of economic power within the financial community, and eliminate certain serious conflict-of-interest situations occurring as a result of existing practices carried on by financial institutions.
These hearings took place from April 20 - May 4, 1971. Included are statements from such individuals as Arthur Burns, Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System; William Camp, Comptroller of the Currency; Preston Martin, Chairman of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board; Richard Smith, Commissioner of the Securities and Exchange Commission; and Frank Wille, Chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.
SUDOC:
Y 4.B22/1:B22/22/971
OCLC:
157948
Citation:
United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking and Currency, ([year]), Banking Reform Act of 1971: Hearings before the Committee on Banking and Currency, House of Representatives, on H.R. 5700, H.R. 3287, and H.R. 7440, [issue title/date], accessed May 25, 2013 from FRASER, http:fraser.stlouisfed.org/publication/?pid=227
Authors:
Topics:
Banking and Currency Bill: Comparative Print Showing H.R. 7837, an Act to Provide for the Establishment of Federal Reserve Banks, to Furnish an Elastic Currency, to Afford Means of Rediscounting Commercial Paper, to Establish a More Effective Supervision of Banking in the United States, and for Other Purposes, as Passed by the House, as Passed by the Senate, and as Agreed to in Conference
Description:
Senate document number 335, 63rd congress, 2nd session. A comparative print showing, in three columns, Federal Reserve Act as passed by the House, as passed by the Senate, and as agreed to in conference.
OCLC:
34899778
Citation:
United States. Congress. Senate, ([year]), Banking and Currency Bill: Comparative Print Showing H.R. 7837, an Act to Provide for the Establishment of Federal Reserve Banks, to Furnish an Elastic Currency, to Afford Means of Rediscounting Commercial Paper, to Establish a More Effective Supervision of Banking in the United States, and for Other Purposes, as Passed by the House, as Passed by the Senate, and as Agreed to in Conference, [issue title/date], accessed May 25, 2013 from FRASER, http:fraser.stlouisfed.org/publication/?pid=827
Authors:
Topics:
Banking and Currency: Hearings before the Committee on Banking and Currency, United States Senate, Sixty-third Congress, First Session, on H.R. 7837 (S. 2639), a Bill to Provide for the Establishment of Federal Reserve Banks, for Furnishing an Elastic Currency, Affording Means of Rediscounting Commercial Paper, and to Establish a More Effective Supervision of Banking in the United States, and for Other Purposes
Description:
These hearings, chaired by Robert Owen and held September 2 through October 27, 1913 were held to discuss passage of the Federal Reserve Act. They are published in three volumes, as Senate Document 232, 63rd Congress, 1st Session. An index is provided at the end of Volume III.
SUDOC:
63/1:S.Doc.232/
OCLC:
6246370
Citation:
United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking and Currency, ([year]), Banking and Currency: Hearings before the Committee on Banking and Currency, United States Senate, Sixty-third Congress, First Session, on H.R. 7837 (S. 2639), a Bill to Provide for the Establishment of Federal Reserve Banks, for Furnishing an Elastic Currency, Affording Means of Rediscounting Commercial Paper, and to Establish a More Effective Supervision of Banking in the United States, and for Other Purposes, [issue title/date], accessed May 25, 2013 from FRASER, http:fraser.stlouisfed.org/publication/?pid=429
Authors:
Topics:
Related Publications:
Bill Relating to Direct Loans for Industrial Purposes by Federal Reserve Banks, and for Other Purposes
Description:
S. 3487; amending Federal Reserve Act to add section 13b, language pertaining to industrial loans; other minor language changes to the Act.
Citation:
United States. Congress. Senate, ([year]), Bill Relating to Direct Loans for Industrial Purposes by Federal Reserve Banks, and for Other Purposes, [issue title/date], accessed May 25, 2013 from FRASER, http:fraser.stlouisfed.org/publication/?pid=361
Authors:
Topics:
Related Publications:
Bill to Amend the Federal Reserve Act, and for Other Purposes
Description:
S. 828; changes to Section 14(b) of the Federal Reserve Act, pertaining to the sale and purchase of any bonds, notes, or other direct obligations of the United States.
Citation:
United States. Congress. Senate, ([year]), Bill to Amend the Federal Reserve Act, and for Other Purposes, [issue title/date], accessed May 25, 2013 from FRASER, http:fraser.stlouisfed.org/publication/?pid=364
Authors:
Topics:
Bill to Amend the Federal Reserve Act, as Amended, to Provide That the Absorption of Exchange and Collection Charges Shall Not Be Deemed the Payment of Interest on Deposits
Description:
H.R. 2316; changes designed to prevent absorption of exchange and collection charges as payment of interest on deposits.
Citation:
United States. Congress. House, ([year]), Bill to Amend the Federal Reserve Act, as Amended, to Provide That the Absorption of Exchange and Collection Charges Shall Not Be Deemed the Payment of Interest on Deposits, [issue title/date], accessed May 25, 2013 from FRASER, http:fraser.stlouisfed.org/publication/?pid=363
Authors:
Topics:
Bill to Make the Federal Reserve System Responsive to the Best Interests of the People of the United States and to Improve the Coordination of Monetary, Fiscal, and Economic Policy
Description:
H.R. 11; topics covered include: retirement of Federal Reserve bank stock, coordination of monetary policies with the President, changes to Board membership and length of terms, audit procedures, and the Employment Act of 1946.
Citation:
United States. Congress. House, ([year]), Bill to Make the Federal Reserve System Responsive to the Best Interests of the People of the United States and to Improve the Coordination of Monetary, Fiscal, and Economic Policy, [issue title/date], accessed May 25, 2013 from FRASER, http:fraser.stlouisfed.org/publication/?pid=365
Authors:
Topics:
Related Publications:
Bill to Provide for a More Equitable Distribution of the Earnings of Federal Reserve Banks
Description:
H.R. 4145; revisions to Section 7 of the Federal Reserve Act intended to modify the distribution of the Federal Reserve banks' earnings.
Citation:
United States. Congress. House, ([year]), Bill to Provide for a More Equitable Distribution of the Earnings of Federal Reserve Banks, [issue title/date], accessed May 25, 2013 from FRASER, http:fraser.stlouisfed.org/publication/?pid=358
Authors:
Topics:
Bill to Provide for the Safer and More Effective Use of the Assets of Banks, to Regulate Interbank Control, to Prevent the Undue Diversion of Funds into Speculative Operations, and for Other Purposes
Description:
H.R. 5661; also known as the Banking Act of 1933; includes 76 pages with language that was stricken from the bill.
Citation:
United States. Congress. House, ([year]), Bill to Provide for the Safer and More Effective Use of the Assets of Banks, to Regulate Interbank Control, to Prevent the Undue Diversion of Funds into Speculative Operations, and for Other Purposes, [issue title/date], accessed May 25, 2013 from FRASER, http:fraser.stlouisfed.org/publication/?pid=360
Authors:
Topics:
Related Publications:
Bill to Provide for the Safer and More Effective Use of the Assets of Federal Reserve Banks and of National Banking Associations, to Regulate Interbank Control, to Prevent the Undue Diversion of Funds into Speculative Operations, and for Other Purposes
Description:
S. 1631; also known as the Banking Act of 1933; established Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.
Citation:
United States. Congress. Senate, ([year]), Bill to Provide for the Safer and More Effective Use of the Assets of Federal Reserve Banks and of National Banking Associations, to Regulate Interbank Control, to Prevent the Undue Diversion of Funds into Speculative Operations, and for Other Purposes, [issue title/date], accessed May 25, 2013 from FRASER, http:fraser.stlouisfed.org/publication/?pid=359
Authors:
Topics:
Related Publications:
Bretton Woods Agreement Act
Imprint:
Imprint: Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1945.
Date:
Printed by the Government Printing Office, 1945
Citation:
United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking and Currency, 1945, Bretton Woods Agreement Act, from Meltzer, A History of the Federal Reserve Volume 1, 1913-1951, accessed May 25, 2013 from FRASER, http://fraser.stlouisfed.org/meltzer/record.php?id=4058
Authors:
Bretton Woods Agreements Act: Hearings before the Committee on Banking and Currency, United States Senate, Seventy-ninth Congress, First Session, on H.R. 3314, an Act to Provide for the Participation of the United States in the International Monetary Fund and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Cevelopment, June 12, 13, 14, 15, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 25, and 28, 1945
Description:
Hearings before the Committee on Banking and Currency, on H.R. 3314, an act to provide for the participation of the United States in the International Monetary Fund and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Finance.
79th Congress, 1st Session
SUDOC:
Y 4.B 22/3:B 75/rev
OCLC:
3545808
Citation:
United States. Congress. Senate, ([year]), Bretton Woods Agreements Act: Hearings before the Committee on Banking and Currency, United States Senate, Seventy-ninth Congress, First Session, on H.R. 3314, an Act to Provide for the Participation of the United States in the International Monetary Fund and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Cevelopment, June 12, 13, 14, 15, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 25, and 28, 1945, [issue title/date], accessed May 25, 2013 from FRASER, http:fraser.stlouisfed.org/publication/?pid=767
Authors:
Topics:
Briefing on Operation Independence: Hearing before the Subcommittee on International Trade, Investment and Monetary Policy of the Committee on Banking, Currency and Housing, House of Representatives, Ninety-fourth Congress, First Session. March 12, 1975.
Description:
This meeting was called for the purpose of having an informal briefing by the Federal Energy Administration.
SUDOC:
Y 4.B 22/1:Op 2
OCLC:
1419517
Citation:
United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking, Currency and Housing, ([year]), Briefing on Operation Independence: Hearing before the Subcommittee on International Trade, Investment and Monetary Policy of the Committee on Banking, Currency and Housing, House of Representatives, Ninety-fourth Congress, First Session. March 12, 1975., [issue title/date], accessed May 25, 2013 from FRASER, http:fraser.stlouisfed.org/publication/?pid=221
Authors:
Topics:
Broker's Loans : Hearings Before the Committee on Banking and Currency, United States Senate, Seventieth Congress, First Session, on S. Res. 113, A Resolution Favoring a Restriction of Loans by Federal Reserve Banks for Speculative Purposes, February 9, 29, and March 7, 1928
Description:
Includes text of S. Res. 113.
SUDOC:
Y 4.B 22/3:B 78
OCLC:
8987996
Citation:
United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking and Currency, ([year]), Broker's Loans : Hearings Before the Committee on Banking and Currency, United States Senate, Seventieth Congress, First Session, on S. Res. 113, A Resolution Favoring a Restriction of Loans by Federal Reserve Banks for Speculative Purposes, February 9, 29, and March 7, 1928, [issue title/date], accessed May 25, 2013 from FRASER, http:fraser.stlouisfed.org/publication/?pid=852
Authors:
Topics:
Business Loans by Federal Reserve Banks: Hearings... on S. 2998, a Bill to Establish a Permanent Industrial Loan Corporation to Assist Financing Institutions in Making Credit Available to Commercial and Industrial Enterprises and S. 3839…
Description:
Hearings regarding S. 2998 and S. 3839; includes Eccles' testimony.
Date:
1940/06/12,
Citation:
Eccles, Marriner S. (Marriner Stoddard), 1890-1977, Jones, Jesse H. (Jesse Holman), 1874-1956, Mead, James M., United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking and Currency. Subcommittee on Reconstruction Finance Corporation and Wiggins, A. L. M., 1940, Business Loans by Federal Reserve Banks: Hearings... on S. 2998, a Bill to Establish a Permanent Industrial Loan Corporation to Assist Financing Institutions in Making Credit Available to Commercial and Industrial Enterprises and S. 3839…, from The Marriner S. Eccles Document Collection, accessed May 25, 2013 from FRASER, http://fraser.stlouisfed.org/docs/historical/eccles/064_12_0001.pdf
Authors:
Changes in the Banking and Currency System of the United States. Report, together with views of the minority and minority views [to accompany H.R. 7837]
Description:
Report No. 69 of the House of Representatives, Committee on Banking and Currency, 63d Congress, 1st Session. Submitted by Mr. Glass. Committed to the Committee of the whole House on the state of the Union and order printed September 9, 1913. "Views of the minority" signed by E.A. Hayes, Frank E. Guernsey, James F. Burke, Frank P. Woods, and Edmund Platt. "Minority views" submitted by Mr. Lindbergh.
The bill (H. R. 7837) was to provide for the establishment of Federal reserve banks, to furnish an elastic currency, to afford means of rediscounting commercial paper, to establish a more effective supervision of banking in the United States, and for other purposes. This report recommended that the bill pass as amended.
OCLC:
7926422
Citation:
United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking and Currency, ([year]), Changes in the Banking and Currency System of the United States. Report, together with views of the minority and minority views [to accompany H.R. 7837], [issue title/date], accessed May 25, 2013 from FRASER, http:fraser.stlouisfed.org/publication/?pid=394
Authors:
Topics: