- 6/18/2009
Frank Announces Tentative Committee Schedule for the Consideration of Financial Regulatory Reform
Washington, DC - House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank (D-MA) today announced the committee’s tentative schedule for the consideration of the Obama Administration’s plan for sweeping financial regulatory reform. Chairman Frank is also working to reschedule the postponed hearing with Secretary Geithner, and he noted that additional hearings and committee meetings will be scheduled in July. Below is a tentative committee schedule:
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- 6/10/2009
Frank Statement on European Commission’s Report on U.S. Internet Gambling Laws
Washington, DC - Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank released the following statement in response to a European Commission report released today that investigated U.S. internet gambling laws and their enforcement against European Union companies. The report concludes that the U.S. measures constitute an obstacle to trade that is inconsistent with World Trade Organization (WTO) rules. It also concludes that U.S. laws deny access and discriminate against foreign suppliers of gambling and betting services inconsistently with U.S. WTO obligations.
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- 5/28/2009
Reps. Maloney, Frank, Gutierrez ask Fed to Curb Bank Overdraft Abuses
Washington, DC - Reps. Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY), Barney Frank (D-MA), and Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) today called on the Federal Reserve to strengthen its proposed regulation of bank overdraft fees by requiring banks to have consumers opt-in to overdraft programs and prohibiting the posting of transactions in a sequence which maximizes overdraft fees.
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