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)
Compendium on Monetary Policy Guidelines and Federal Reserve Structure, Pursuant to H.R. 11
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This staff report for the Subcommittee on Domestic Finance of the Committee on Banking and Currency included replies received from the Federal Reserve, the Treasury, the Council of Economic Advisers and 71 academic, bank and research monetary economists, along with a summary of the responses and an analysis of the reply of the Federal Reserve, in response to a questionnaire sent out on July 9, 1968. Respondents were asked to express their opinions on questions pertaining to H.R. 11, a 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." Specifically, the bill provided for
(a) Retiring Federal Reserve bank stock
(b) Coordinating Federal Reserve bank policies and programs with those of the President of the United States in keeping with the provisions of the Employment Act of 1946;
(c) Reducing the number and term of office of members of the Federal Reserve Board;
(d) Making the term of Chairman of the Board coterminous with that of the President of the United States;
(e) An audit for each fiscal year of the Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Reserve banks and their branches by the Comptroller General of the United States;
(f) Funds to operate the Federal Reserve System to be appropriated by the Congress of the United States.
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Y 4.B 22/1:M 74/19
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8580
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United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking and Currency. Subcommittee on Domestic Finance, ([year]), Compendium on Monetary Policy Guidelines and Federal Reserve Structure, Pursuant to H.R. 11, [issue title/date], accessed May 25, 2013 from FRASER, http:fraser.stlouisfed.org/publication/?pid=393
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Compilation of Basic Banking Laws
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This compilation was first created in 1992 for the House Committee on Banking and Financial Services to bring together in one publication the major statues affecting insured depository institutions and their customers. It has been revised periodically.
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Y 4.B 22/1:B 22/32/995, Y 4.F 49/20:107-C
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32575361, 47292297
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United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking and Financial Services and United States. Congress. House. Committee on Financial Services, ([year]), Compilation of Basic Banking Laws, [issue title/date], accessed May 25, 2013 from FRASER, http:fraser.stlouisfed.org/publication/?pid=99
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- United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking and Financial Services
- United States. Congress. House. Committee on Financial Services
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Confirmation of Thomas B. McCabe: Hearings, Eightieth Congress, Second Session, on Confirmation of Nomination of Thomas Bayard McCabe, of Pennsylvania, to be a Member of Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, March 3, 10, 24, and 30, 1948
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Thomas Bayard McCabe (1893-1982) served as the 8th Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System from 1948 to 1951. He was nominated by President Harry S. Truman. Rising to Captain in the U.S. Army during World War I, he then joined the Scott Paper Company, where he served as president and CEO between 1927 and 1967.
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Y.4 B22/3:M 12
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21727519
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United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking and Currency, ([year]), Confirmation of Thomas B. McCabe: Hearings, Eightieth Congress, Second Session, on Confirmation of Nomination of Thomas Bayard McCabe, of Pennsylvania, to be a Member of Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, March 3, 10, 24, and 30, 1948, [issue title/date], accessed May 25, 2013 from FRASER, http:fraser.stlouisfed.org/publication/?pid=768
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Congressional Testimony of Board Members and Staff of the Federal Reserve System
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This publication provides a subject index and references to the hearing entries which are arranged by Congressional Committee.
OCLC:
7433750
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Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.). Research Library, ([year]), Congressional Testimony of Board Members and Staff of the Federal Reserve System, [issue title/date], accessed May 25, 2013 from FRASER, http:fraser.stlouisfed.org/publication/?pid=411
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Continental Illinois National Bank: Report of an Inquiry into its Federal Supervision and Assistance: Staff Report to the Subcommittee on Financial Institutions Supervision, Regulation, and Insurance of the Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs, House of Representatives, Ninety-Ninth Congress, First Session.
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Scanned from best copy available.
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Y 4.B 22/1:C 76/9
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12355947
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United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs. Subcommittee on Financial Institutions Supervision, Regulation and Insurance, ([year]), Continental Illinois National Bank: Report of an Inquiry into its Federal Supervision and Assistance: Staff Report to the Subcommittee on Financial Institutions Supervision, Regulation, and Insurance of the Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs, House of Representatives, Ninety-Ninth Congress, First Session., [issue title/date], accessed May 25, 2013 from FRASER, http:fraser.stlouisfed.org/publication/?pid=347
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Continuation of Present Debt Ceiling: Hearing before the Committee on Ways and Means, House of Representatives, Eighty-eighth Congress, First Session, on the President's Request for Continuation of $308 Billion Public Debt Ceiling through June 30, 1963, February 27, 1963
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Hearing before the House Committee on Ways and Means. The President's request for continuation of $308 billion public debt ceiling through June 30, 1963.
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7742971
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United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means, ([year]), Continuation of Present Debt Ceiling: Hearing before the Committee on Ways and Means, House of Representatives, Eighty-eighth Congress, First Session, on the President's Request for Continuation of $308 Billion Public Debt Ceiling through June 30, 1963, February 27, 1963, [issue title/date], accessed May 25, 2013 from FRASER, http:fraser.stlouisfed.org/publication/?pid=719
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Continuation of the nomination G. William Miller: hearings before the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, United States Senate, Ninety-fifth Congress, second session, on the nomination of G. William Miller to be Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, February 27 and 28, 1978
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Y 4.B 22/3:M 61/4/978-2
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4046713
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United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, ([year]), Continuation of the nomination G. William Miller: hearings before the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, United States Senate, Ninety-fifth Congress, second session, on the nomination of G. William Miller to be Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, February 27 and 28, 1978, [issue title/date], accessed May 25, 2013 from FRASER, http:fraser.stlouisfed.org/publication/?pid=269
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- Further matters relating to the nomination of G. William Miller : hearing before the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, United States Senate, Ninety-sixth Congress, second session, on the nomination of G. William Miller to be chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, February 8, 1980
- Nomination of G. William Miller : hearing before the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, United States Senate, Ninety-fifth Congress, second session, on the nomination of G. William Miller to be Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve Board, January 24, 1978
- Staff Investigation Relating to the Nomination of G. William Miller to be Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
Creating Jobs Through Energy Policy: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Energy of the Joint Economic Committee, Congress of the United States, Ninety-fifth Congress, Second Session, March 15 and 16, 1978
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Y 4.Ec 7:J 57/10
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4312313
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United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee. Subcommittee on Energy, ([year]), Creating Jobs Through Energy Policy: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Energy of the Joint Economic Committee, Congress of the United States, Ninety-fifth Congress, Second Session, March 15 and 16, 1978, [issue title/date], accessed May 25, 2013 from FRASER, http:fraser.stlouisfed.org/publication/?pid=893
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Currency Bill: Comparative Print, Showing the Changes Suggested by the Modified Amendment Submitted to the Senate by Mr. Owen, Also the Changes Suggested by the Amendments Intended to be Proposed by Mr. Hitchcock, to H.R. 7837, and 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
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Senate document number 264, 63rd congress, 2nd session. A comparative print showing, in three columns, Federal Reserve Act as the House bill, the Owen Amendment, and the Hitchcock amendment.
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39990757
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United States. Congress. Senate, ([year]), Currency Bill: Comparative Print, Showing the Changes Suggested by the Modified Amendment Submitted to the Senate by Mr. Owen, Also the Changes Suggested by the Amendments Intended to be Proposed by Mr. Hitchcock, to H.R. 7837, and 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, [issue title/date], accessed May 25, 2013 from FRASER, http:fraser.stlouisfed.org/publication/?pid=826
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Debt Ceiling Increase: Hearings before the Committee on Finance, United States Senate, Eighty-fifth Congress, Second Session, on H.R.9955, an Act to Provide for a Temporary Increase in the Public Debt, January 27, 28, February 4 and 7, 1958
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Hearings before the Committee on Finance, United States Senate, on H.R. 9955. An act to provide for a temporary increase in the public debt.
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Y 4.F 49:D 35/3
OCLC:
665273
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United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance, ([year]), Debt Ceiling Increase: Hearings before the Committee on Finance, United States Senate, Eighty-fifth Congress, Second Session, on H.R.9955, an Act to Provide for a Temporary Increase in the Public Debt, January 27, 28, February 4 and 7, 1958, [issue title/date], accessed May 25, 2013 from FRASER, http:fraser.stlouisfed.org/publication/?pid=770
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Debt Ceiling Increase: Hearings before the Committee on Finance, United States Senate, Eighty-sixth Congress, First Session, on H.R. 7749, an Act to Increase the Amount of Obligations, Issued under the Second Liberty Loan Act, which May Be Outstanding at Any One Time, June 25, 1959
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Hearing before the Senate Committee on Finance on H.R. 7749. An act to increase the amount of obligations, issued under the Second Liberty Bond Act, which may be outstanding at one time.
OCLC:
13622619
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United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance, ([year]), Debt Ceiling Increase: Hearings before the Committee on Finance, United States Senate, Eighty-sixth Congress, First Session, on H.R. 7749, an Act to Increase the Amount of Obligations, Issued under the Second Liberty Loan Act, which May Be Outstanding at Any One Time, June 25, 1959, [issue title/date], accessed May 25, 2013 from FRASER, http:fraser.stlouisfed.org/publication/?pid=771
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Debt Ceiling Limit Issue: Hearing before the Committee on Banking and Financial Services, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fourth Congress, Second Session, February 8, 1996
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Hearing before the House Committee on Banking and Financial Services. Includes testimony by William Poole.
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Y 4.B 22/1:104-42
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35988092
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United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking and Financial Services, ([year]), Debt Ceiling Limit Issue: Hearing before the Committee on Banking and Financial Services, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fourth Congress, Second Session, February 8, 1996, [issue title/date], accessed May 25, 2013 from FRASER, http:fraser.stlouisfed.org/publication/?pid=720
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Debt Ceiling: Hearing before the Committee on Finance, United States Senate, Eighty-seventh Congress, Second Session, on H.R. 11990, an Act to Provide for a Temporary Increase in the Public Debt Limit Set Forth in Section 21 of the Second Liberty Bond Act, June 26, 1962
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Hearing before the Committee on Finance, United States Senate, on H.R. 11990. An act to provide for a temporary increase in the public debt limit set forth in section 21 of the Second Liberty Bond Act.
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Y 4.F 49:D 35/5/962
OCLC:
13646617
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United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance, ([year]), Debt Ceiling: Hearing before the Committee on Finance, United States Senate, Eighty-seventh Congress, Second Session, on H.R. 11990, an Act to Provide for a Temporary Increase in the Public Debt Limit Set Forth in Section 21 of the Second Liberty Bond Act, June 26, 1962, [issue title/date], accessed May 25, 2013 from FRASER, http:fraser.stlouisfed.org/publication/?pid=769
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Debt Limit of the United States: Hearing before the Committee on Ways and Means, House of Representatives, Eighty-fifth Congress, Second Session, on H. R. 9955 and H. R. 9956, Bills to Provide for a Temporary Increase in the Debt Limit of the United States, January 17, 1958
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Hearing before the House Committee on Ways and Means on H.R. 995 and H.R. 9956, bills to provide for a temporary increase in the debt limit of the United States.
OCLC:
6884441
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United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means, ([year]), Debt Limit of the United States: Hearing before the Committee on Ways and Means, House of Representatives, Eighty-fifth Congress, Second Session, on H. R. 9955 and H. R. 9956, Bills to Provide for a Temporary Increase in the Debt Limit of the United States, January 17, 1958, [issue title/date], accessed May 25, 2013 from FRASER, http:fraser.stlouisfed.org/publication/?pid=721
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Defense Production Act; Regulation W - Automotive: Hearings before the Joint Committee on Defense Production, Congress of the United States, Eighty-first Congress, Second Session, on the Effect of Regulation W on Automotive Sales and Financing, December 6, 7, 8, and 11, 1950
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Hearings before the Joint Committee on Defense Production. 81st Congress of the United States. The effect of Regulation W on automotive sales and financing.
OCLC:
21727345
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United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Defense Production, ([year]), Defense Production Act; Regulation W - Automotive: Hearings before the Joint Committee on Defense Production, Congress of the United States, Eighty-first Congress, Second Session, on the Effect of Regulation W on Automotive Sales and Financing, December 6, 7, 8, and 11, 1950, [issue title/date], accessed May 25, 2013 from FRASER, http:fraser.stlouisfed.org/publication/?pid=819
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Direct Loans for Industrial Purposes by Federal Reserve Banks. Conference Report. To accompany S. 3487.
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This report from the committee of conference on bill S. 3487, resolved the language of amendments to the Federal Reserve Act which allowed individual Federal Reserve banks to lend to industrial or commercial businesses in their districts.
OCLC:
6416105
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United States. Congress. House, ([year]), Direct Loans for Industrial Purposes by Federal Reserve Banks. Conference Report. To accompany S. 3487., [issue title/date], accessed May 25, 2013 from FRASER, http:fraser.stlouisfed.org/publication/?pid=722
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Direct Purchases of Government Securities by Federal Reserve Banks: Hearing... on H. R. 2233, Superceded by H. R. 2413, An Act to Amend the Federal Reserve Act, and for Other Purposes
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Considers legislation to make permanent Federal Reserve bank authority to purchase Government securities directly from Treas Dept, and to remove Federal Reserve bank branch construction cost limits.
Considers (80) H.R. 2233, (80) H.R. 2413
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Y 4.B 22/1:Se 2
OCLC:
62654212
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United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking and Currency, ([year]), Direct Purchases of Government Securities by Federal Reserve Banks: Hearing... on H. R. 2233, Superceded by H. R. 2413, An Act 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=723
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Direct Purchases of United States Obligations by Federal Reserve Banks: Hearings before the Committee on Banking and Currency, House of Representatives, Eighty-fourth Congress, Second Session, on H. R. 9285. February 27 and 29, 1956
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Hearings before the Committee on Banking and Currency, on H.R. 9285
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Y 4.B 22/1:Ob 4/2
OCLC:
6875171
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United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking and Currency, ([year]), Direct Purchases of United States Obligations by Federal Reserve Banks: Hearings before the Committee on Banking and Currency, House of Representatives, Eighty-fourth Congress, Second Session, on H. R. 9285. February 27 and 29, 1956, [issue title/date], accessed May 25, 2013 from FRASER, http:fraser.stlouisfed.org/publication/?pid=724
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Documents and Statements Pertaining to the Banking Emergency
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Documents and statements pertaining primarily to the emergency banking restrictions and regulations are presented as Part I of this publication, and material pertaining primarily to gold, currency, and foreign exchange is presented as Part II.
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United States. Congress, United States. Dept. of the Treasury and United States. President, ([year]), Documents and Statements Pertaining to the Banking Emergency, [issue title/date], accessed May 25, 2013 from FRASER, http:fraser.stlouisfed.org/publication/?pid=709
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Draft: Public Act No. [4], 73d Congress. (H.R. 3757): An Act to Provide for Direct Loans by Federal Reserve Banks to State Banks and Trust Companies in Certain Cases, and for Other Purposes
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Draft of language for final act outlining amendments to emergency banking legislation passed March 9, 1933; related to Public Act No. 4, 73d Congress, H.R. 3757.
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United States. Congress, ([year]), Draft: Public Act No. [4], 73d Congress. (H.R. 3757): An Act to Provide for Direct Loans by Federal Reserve Banks to State Banks and Trust Companies in Certain Cases, and for Other Purposes, [issue title/date], accessed May 25, 2013 from FRASER, http:fraser.stlouisfed.org/publication/?pid=351
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Earnings Sharing Options for the Social Security System
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This report to the Senate Committee on Finance and to the House Committee on Ways and Means responds to the Social Security Amendments of 1983, which directed the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) to examine the methodologies, recommendations, and analyses used in a report prepared by Health and Human Services on earnings sharing.
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Y 10.2:Ea 7
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13197046
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United States. Congressional Budget Office, ([year]), Earnings Sharing Options for the Social Security System, [issue title/date], accessed May 25, 2013 from FRASER, http:fraser.stlouisfed.org/publication/?pid=873
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Economic Evolution of Agriculture: Statements Prepared for the Use of the Joint Economic Committee, Congress of the United States
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Y 4.Ec 7:Ag 8/11
OCLC:
11803126
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United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee, ([year]), Economic Evolution of Agriculture: Statements Prepared for the Use of the Joint Economic Committee, Congress of the United States, [issue title/date], accessed May 25, 2013 from FRASER, http:fraser.stlouisfed.org/publication/?pid=900
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Economic Impact of Federal Deficits, 1984-1989: a Staff Study Prepared for the Use of the Subcommittee on Economic Goals and Intergovernmental Policy of the Joint Economic Committee, Congress of the United States
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A staff study prepared for the use of the Subcommittee on Economic Goals and Intergovernmental Policy of the Joint Economic Committee.
OCLC:
11536357
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United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee, ([year]), Economic Impact of Federal Deficits, 1984-1989: a Staff Study Prepared for the Use of the Subcommittee on Economic Goals and Intergovernmental Policy of the Joint Economic Committee, Congress of the United States, [issue title/date], accessed May 25, 2013 from FRASER, http:fraser.stlouisfed.org/publication/?pid=758
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Economic Implications of the "Too Big To Fail" Policy: Hearing before the Subcommittee on Economic Stabilization of the Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundred Second Congress, First Session. May 9, 1991.
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This hearing, held before the Subcommittee on Economic Stabilization of the House of Representatives, reviews the economic implications of a 'too-big-to-fail policy' in light of the bank failures that took place in the 1980s. The hearing was intended to address questions about the standard of treatment of uninsured depositors in bank failures.
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Y 4.B 22/1:102-31
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24361747
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United States. Congress. House, ([year]), Economic Implications of the "Too Big To Fail" Policy: Hearing before the Subcommittee on Economic Stabilization of the Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundred Second Congress, First Session. May 9, 1991., [issue title/date], accessed May 25, 2013 from FRASER, http:fraser.stlouisfed.org/publication/?pid=89
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Economic Problems of Women: Hearings before the Joint Economic Committee, Congress of the United States, Ninety-third Congress, First Session [and Second Session]
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These hearings were held before the Joint Economic Committee, ninety-third Congress, first session, on July 10-30, 1973. The hearings focused on economic discrimination in employment, earnings, credit, insurance, taxes, social security, and transfer programs.
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LinkY 4.Ec 7:W 84/
OCLC:
867794
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United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee, ([year]), Economic Problems of Women: Hearings before the Joint Economic Committee, Congress of the United States, Ninety-third Congress, First Session [and Second Session], [issue title/date], accessed May 25, 2013 from FRASER, http:fraser.stlouisfed.org/publication/?pid=246
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