House Panel Looks at Relief for Bond Insurers
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Lawmakers said government intervention may be needed to ease financial strains in the bond industry that are unsettling other areas of the economy.
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The House approved a government insurance program on Tuesday that commits Washington to paying for most of the damage in the event of a terrorist attack in the next seven years.
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The bond insurer problem must be  fixed, or else it could become a "financial tsunami" that  wreaks havoc on the broader economy, New York Governor Eliot  Spitzer is due to tell the Congress Thursday.
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The chairman of the U.S. House of  Representatives Financial Services Committee will this year  scrutinize the mortgage lending industry and draft new consumer  protections for credit card holders, he said on Friday.
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Fear of bond insurers losing their  investment-grade credit ratings is rattling investors as  estimates mount for the cost of paying for the latest chapter  in the widening U.S. credit crisis.
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WASHINGTON -- The head of the House Financial Services Committee and 21 other Democrats yesterday proposed legislation to give shareholders at public companies a formal say in executives' compensation packages.
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The House Financial Services Committee will draft legislation requiring U.S. hedge funds to keep copies of trading data and will take a closer look at the role of credit rating agencies in the collapse of some funds linked to subprime mortgages, the panel chairman said on Wednesday.
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House leaders on Wednesday announced a task force to examine whether an outside panel should investigate ethics problems involving House members.
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A House of Representatives subcommittee has scheduled a hearing to examine the NFL Players Association's procedures for disciplining agents.
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A Congressional committee began looking into business practices in the long-term care insurance industry.
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Lawmakers on Tuesday urged the US Securities and Exchange Commission to move to reform the oversight of credit-rating agencies, with one suggesting its power
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The U.S. House of Representatives on  Wednesday voted to allow workers and retirees to find out from  a federal agency just how severe the shortfalls are in their  companies' pension plans.
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The insurance industry is one of Washington's fiercest and best-funded lobbies, so it rarely gets surprised. But last week several industry representatives privately acknowledged amazement that their most important federal benefit -- an antitrust exemption -- is in danger.
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Bond insurers may be split into two businesses -- one to guarantee municipal bonds and the other to back riskier securities linked to troubled mortgages -- in what would be the biggest overhaul of the industry since it was created almost four decades ago.
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The House Financial Services Committee plans a March 22 hearing on whether to close the federal banking loophole that allows retailers such as Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and Home Depot Inc. to operate banks, sources familiar with the matter said on Friday.
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A U.S. House Financial Services  subcommittee will hold a hearing on accounting problems at  mortgage funder Fannie Mae FNM.N next week, the committee  said on Wednesday.
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A U.S. House Financial Services subcommittee will hold a hearing on accounting problems at mortgage funder Fannie Mae  next week, the committee said on Wednesday.