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Page 15 - Affairs, to which committee shall be referred all proposed legislation, messages petitions, memorials, and other matters relating to the following subjects: 1.
Page 15 - RULE XXV STANDING COMMITTEES 1. The following standing committees shall be appointed at the commencement of each Congress, and shall continue and have the power to act until their successors are appointed...
Page 15 - ... which committee shall be referred all proposed legislation, messages petitions, memorials, and other matters relating to the following subjects: 1. Banks, banking, and financial institutions. 2. Control of prices of commodities, rents, and services. 3. Deposit insurance. 4. Economic stabilization and defense production. 5. Export and foreign trade promotion. 6. Export controls. 7. Federal monetary policy, including Federal Reserve System. 8. Financial aid to commerce and industry. 9. Issuance...
Page 53 - To deter and punish terrorist acts in the United States and around the world, to enhance law enforcement investigatory tools, and for other purposes', the Act removed wide-ranging freedoms previously protected under the US constitution.
Page 55 - An Act To protect investors by improving the accuracy and reliability of corporate disclosures made pursuant to the securities laws, and for other purposes.
Page 24 - MACK) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs A BILL To amend the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to reduce securities fees in excess of those required to fund the operations of the Securities and Exchange Commission, to adjust compensation provisions for employees of the Commission, and for other purposes.
Page 17 - Accounting and Investor Protection Issues Raised by Enron and Other Public Companies...
Page 15 - International Monetary Fund and other international organizations established primarily for international monetary purposes (except that, at the request of the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, any proposed legislation relating to such subjects reported by the Committee on Foreign Relations shall be referred to the Committee on Ranking, Housing, and Urban Affairs).
Page 15 - Public and private housing (including veterans' housing). 13. Renegotiation of Government contracts. 14. Urban development and urban mass transit. (2) Such committee shall also study and review, on a comprehensive basis, matters relating to international economic policy as it affects United States monetary affairs, credit, and financial institutions; economic growth, urban affairs, and credit, and report thereon from time to time.
Page 42 - Affairs reported an original bill to improve quality and transparency in financial reporting and independent audits and accounting services for public companies, to create a Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, to enhance the standard setting process for accounting practices, to strengthen the independence of firms that audit public companies, to increase corporate responsibility and the usefulness of corporate financial disclosure, to protect the objectivity and independence of securities...

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