United States Congress. Senate.

1913 House Banking and Currency Bill to Provide for the Establishment of Federal Reserve Banks (pdf 7.2M)
Also Comparative Print showing the changes suggested by the 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: An Act to Provide for the Establishment of Federal Reserve Banks, to Furnish and 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.
SUDOC:  Y 1.1/3:63-242
Author(s): United States. Congress. Senate.
Dates(s): September 18, 1913

State Banks in Federal Reserve System (pdf 2.9M)
Letter from the Governor of the Federal Reserve Board (W. P. G. Harding) in response to a Senate resolution of January 19, 1920, A Communication Submitting a Report as to Alleged Coercive Measures Attempted to Make State Banks Submit to Rules Made by the Federal Reserve Board or any Federal Reserve Bank.
Author(s): United States. Congress. Senate.
Dates(s): January 28, 1920

Nomination of Eugene Meyer to be a Member of the Federal Reserve Board (pdf 22.5M)
Eugene Meyer (1875-1959) served as the 5th Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. He was nominated by President Herbert Hoover. Prior to his service, he held a seat on the New York Stock Exchange, helped build the Allied Chemical Corporation, lead the War Finance Corporation, and chaired the Federal Farm Loan Board. After resigning his government posts, he purchased the Washington Post and served as its publisher until 1946. After World War II, he was named as the first head of the World Bank in 1946.
SUDOC:  Y.4 B22/3:M 57
OCLC:  6248974
Author(s): United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking and Currency
Dates(s): January 27, 1931, January 28, 1931, January 31, 1931, February 2, 1931, February 3, 1931, February 5, 1931, February 6, 1931, February 7, 1931

Restoring and Maintaining the Average Purchasing Power of the Dollar (pdf 21M)
Hearings before the Committee on Banking and Currency, United States Senate, Seventy-Second Congress, First Session on H.R. 11499 an Act for Restoring and Maintaining the Purchasing Power of the Dollar and S. 4429 a Bill to Restore and Maintain the Average Purchasing Power of the Dollar by the Expansion and Contraction of Credits and Currency, and for other Purposes.
SUDOC:  Y 4.B 22/3:D 69
Author(s): United States. Congress. Senate.
Dates(s): May 12, 1932, May 13, 1932, May 18, 1932

Gold Reserve Act of 1934 (pdf 15.5M)
Hearings before the Committee on Banking and Currency, United States Senate, on S. 2366, a bill to protect the currency system of the United States, to provide for the better use of the monetary gold stock of the United States, and for other purposes. 73rd Congress, 2nd Session
SUDOC:  Y 4.B 22/3:G 56/2/rev
Author(s): United States. Congress. Senate.
Dates(s): January 19, 1934, January 20, 1934, January 21, 1934, January 22, 1934, January 23, 1934

Nomination of Marriner S. Eccles to be a Member of the Federal Reserve Board (pdf 1.3M)
Marriner Stoddard Eccles (1870-1977) served as the 7th Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System from 1934 until 1948. He continued as a member of the Board until 1951. He was nominated for the position by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1934 and confirmed by the Senate in 1935. A Utah banker and entrepreneur before and after his public service at the Treasury and Federal Reserve, he was involved in the creation of the Emergency Banking Act of 1933 and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. The Eccles Building that houses the headquarters of the Federal Reserve is named after him.
SUDOC:  Y.4 B22/3:F 31/21
OCLC:  14066178
Author(s): United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking and Currency
Dates(s): April 15, 1935, April 19, 1935

Bretton Woods Agreements Act (pdf 26.7M)
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
Author(s): United States. Congress. Senate.
Dates(s): June 12, 1945, June 13, 1945, June 14, 1945, June 15, 1945, June 16, 1945, June 18, 1945, June 19, 1945, June 20, 1945, June 21, 1945, June 22, 1945, June 25, 1945, June 28, 1945

Confirmation of Nomination of Thomas Bayard McCabe to be a Member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (pdf 14.5M)
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.
SUDOC:  Y.4 B22/3:M 12
OCLC:  21727519
Author(s): United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking and Currency
Dates(s): March 3, 1948, March 10, 1948

Nomination of William McChesney Martin, Jr., to be a Member of the Federal Reserve Board (pdf 1.9M)
William McChesney Martin Jr. (1906-1998) served as the 9th Chairman of the Board of Governors from 1951 until 1970. He was nominated by President Harry S. Truman to fill the unexpired term of Thomas B. McCabe who resigned March 31, 1951. Prior to his service to the Federal Reserve System, he was a member and president of the New York Stock Exchange, head of the Export-Import Bank of Washington, and Assistant Secretary of the Department of the Treasury. He was renominated for a full 14 year term in 1956. Additional documents relating to his career can be found in the William McChesney Martin Jr. Collection on FRASER.
SUDOC:  Y.4 B22/3:M 36
OCLC:  21644436
Author(s): United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking and Currency
Dates(s): March 19, 1951

Nomination of William McChesney Martin, Jr., to be a Member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (pdf 4.8M)
In 1956, William McChesney Martin Jr. (1906-1998) was renominated for a full 14 year term by President Dwight Eisenhower. He retired as Chairman of the Board in February 1, 1970. When more office space was needed for the Board of Governors staff, the new building, completed in 1974, was dedicated to Martin.
SUDOC:  Y.4 B22/3:M 36/956
OCLC:  12299362
Author(s): United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking and Currency
Dates(s): January 20, 1956, January 27, 1956

National Bank Real Estate Loans (pdf 4.2M)
Hearings before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Banking and Currency, United States Senate. Eighty-Eighth Congress, Second Session on S. 2576. A bill to amend Section 24 of the Federal Reserve Act (U.S.C. 371) relating to certain limitations on real estate loans by national banks.
Author(s): United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking and Currency
Dates(s): March 4 , 1964, March 10, 1964

Anti-inflation proposals (pdf 10.5M)
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.
Author(s): United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking and Currency
Dates(s): May 22, 1978, May 23, 1978

Stagflation (pdf 11.5M)
Hearings before the special study on economic change of the Join Economic Committee. Congress of the United States. Ninety-Sixth Congress. First session. April 30, and May 7 and 9, 1979.
Author(s): United States. Congress. Joint Committee on the Economic Report
Dates(s): April 30, 1979, May 7, 1979, May 9, 1979