Greener Communities, Greater Opportunities: New Ideas for Sustainable Development and Economic Growth

Recently Updated Galleries:

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  12-20-12 Recovering from Superstorm Sandy: Rebuilding Our Infrastructure
  Total: 8 Photos
  Updated on: Dec 20, 2012
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  12-06-12 Oversight of FHA: Examining HUD’s Response to Fiscal Challenges
  Total: 6 Photos
  Updated on: Dec 6, 2012
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  11-14-12 Oversight on Basel III: Impact of Proposed Capital Rules
  Total: 6 Photos
  Updated on: Nov 14, 2012
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  07-26-12 The Financial Stability Oversight Council Annual Report to Congress
  Total: 8 Photos
  Updated on: Jul 26, 2012
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  03-20-12 Nominations Hearing
  Total: 5 Photos
  Updated on: Mar 20, 2012
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  03-06-12 Spurring Job Growth Through Capital Formation While Protecting Investors, Part II
  Total: 8 Photos
  Updated on: Mar 6, 2012
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  02-28-12 State of the Housing Market: Removing Barriers to Economic Recovery, Part II
  Total: 5 Photos
  Updated on: Feb 28, 2012
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  02-09-12 State of the Housing Market: Removing Barriers to Economic Recovery
  Total: 7 Photos
  Updated on: Feb 9, 2012
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  12-06-11 Continued Oversight of the Implementation of the Wall Street Reform Act
  Total: 6 Photos
  Updated on: Dec 6, 2011
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  12-01-11 Spurring Job Growth Through Capital Formation While Protecting Investors
  Total: 4 Photos
  Updated on: Dec 1, 2011
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  11-03-11 Empowering and Protecting Servicemembers, Veterans and their Families in the Consumer Financial Marketplace
  Total: 7 Photos
  Updated on: Nov 3, 2011
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  06-21-11 Cybersecurity and Data Protection in the Financial Sector
  Total: 8 Photos
  Updated on: Jun 21, 2011
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  05-12-11 Oversight of Dodd-Frank Implementation: Monitoring Systemic Risk and Promoting Financial Stability
  Total: 5 Photos
  Updated on: May 12, 2011
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  05-10-11 Reviewing the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission's Final Report
  Total: 6 Photos
  Updated on: May 10, 2011
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  04-06-11 The Role of the Accounting Profession in Preventing Another Financial Crisis
  Total: 6 Photos
  Updated on: Apr 6, 2011
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  03-15-11 The Administration’s Report to Congress: Reforming America’s Housing Finance Market
  Total: 6 Photos
  Updated on: Mar 15, 2011
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  03-09-11 The State of the Housing Market
  Total: 6 Photos
  Updated on: Mar 10, 2011
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  03-10-11 The Fiscal Year 2012 Budget for the Securities and Exchange Commission
  Total: 5 Photos
  Updated on: Mar 10, 2011
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  03-08-11 Nomination Hearing
  Total: 7 Photos
  Updated on: Mar 8, 2011
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  03-01-11 The Semiannual Monetary Policy Report to the Congress
  Total: 4 Photos
  Updated on: Mar 1, 2011
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  02-17-11 Oversight of Dodd-Frank Implementation: A Progress Report by the Regulators at the Half-Year Mark
  Total: 4 Photos
  Updated on: Feb 17, 2011
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  Local Perspectives on the Livable Communities Act
  The witnesses will be: The Honorable Jackie Nytes, City-County Councillor, City-County Council of Indianapolis and Marion County, IN, on behalf of the National League of Cities; Mr. Joe McKinney, Executive Director, Land-of-Sky Regional Council, Asheville, NC, on behalf of the National Association of Development Organizations; and Dr. Lyle D. Wray, Executive Director, Capital Region Council of Governments, Hartford, CT, on behalf of the National Association of Regional Councils; and The Honorable Julia W. Gouge, President, Board of County Commissioners, Carroll County, MD, on behalf of the National Association of Counties.
  Total: 8 Photos
  Updated on: Jun 10, 2010
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  House-Senate Conference Meeting On Iran Sanctions
  Total: 5 Photos
  Updated on: Apr 28, 2010
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  The Semiannual Monetary Policy Report to the Congress 02-25-2010
  The witness will be: The Honorable Ben Bernanke, Chairman, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
  Total: 3 Photos
  Updated on: Feb 25, 2010
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  Prohibiting Certain High-Risk Investment Activities by Banks and Bank Holding Companies
  The witnesses will be: The Honorable Paul Volcker, Chairman of the President’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board; and The Honorable Neal S. Wolin, Deputy Secretary, U.S. Department of the Treasury.
  Total: 6 Photos
  Updated on: Feb 2, 2010
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  Nomination Hearing 12-03-09
  The committee will meet in OPEN SESSION to conduct a hearing on the nomination of The Honorable Ben S. Bernanke to be Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
  Total: 5 Photos
  Updated on: Sep 30, 2010
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  Nominations Hearing 11-05-2009
  The Committee will meet in OPEN SESSION to conduct a hearing on the following nominations: Mr. Eric Leonard Hirschhorn, of New York, to be Under Secretary for Export Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce; Mr. Steven Louis Jacques, of Kansas, to be Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Additional nominees may be announced at a later date.
  Total: 6 Photos
  Updated on: Nov 5, 2009
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  Modernizing Affordable Housing for Seniors and People with Disabilities
  The witness on Panel I will be: The Honorable Christopher Murphy (D-CT), United States Congressman. The witnesses on Panel II will be: Ms. Ann O’Hara, Housing Advisor, Consortium for Citizens with Disabilities Housing Task Force; Ms. Michelle Norris, Senior Vice President for Development and Acquisition of National Church Residences, on behalf of American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging; Mr. Michael Jones, Parent from Brick, New Jersey; Mr. Toby Halliday, Vice President for Public Policy, National Housing Trust; and Ms. Sheila Crowley, President and CEO, National Low Income Housing Coalition.
  Total: 10 Photos
  Updated on: Oct 29, 2009
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  The State of the Nation’s Housing Market
  Total: 9 Photos
  Updated on: Oct 20, 2009
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  Securitization of Assets: Problems and Solutions
  Total: 9 Photos
  Updated on: Oct 8, 2009
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  Minimizing Potential Threats from Iran: Administration Perspectives on Economic Sanctions and Other US Policy Options
  The witnesses on Panel I will be: The Honorable Sam Brownback (R-KS), United States Senator; and The Honorable Robert P. Casey, Jr. (D-PA), United States Senator. The witnesses on Panel II will be: The Honorable James B. Steinberg, Deputy Secretary of State, U.S. Department of State; The Honorable Stuart A. Levey, Undersecretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, U.S. Department of the Treasury; and Mr. Daniel O. Hill, Acting Undersecretary for Industry and Security, U.S. Department of Commerce.
  Total: 6 Photos
  Updated on: Oct 6, 2009
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  Emergency Economic Stabilization Act: One Year Later
  The witness on panel I will be: The Honorable Herbert M. Allison, Jr., Assistant Secretary for Financial Stability (TARP), U.S. Department of the Treasury. The witnesses on panel II will be: The Honorable Neil M. Barofsky, Special Inspector General, Troubled Asset Relief Program; Mr. Gene L. Dodaro, Acting Comptroller General, U.S. Government Accountability Office; and Professor Elizabeth Warren, Chairman, Congressional Oversight Panel.
  Total: 7 Photos
  Updated on: Sep 24, 2009
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  Oversight of the SEC’s Failure to Identify the Bernard L. Madoff Ponzi Scheme and How to Improve SEC Performance
  The witness on panel I will be: H. David Kotz, Esq., Inspector General of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The witnesses on panel II will be: Mr. Harry Markopolos, Chartered Financial Analyst and Certified Fraud Examiner; Robert Khuzami, Esq., Director of the Division of Enforcement, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission; and John Walsh, Esq., Acting Director of the Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
  Total: 3 Photos
  Updated on: Sep 11, 2009
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  Strengthening and Streamlining Prudential Bank Supervision
  The witnesses on Panel I will be: The Honorable Sheila Bair, Chairman, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation; The Honorable John Dugan, Comptroller of the Currency, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency; The Honorable Daniel Tarullo, Member, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System; and Mr. John Bowman, Acting Director, Office of Thrift Supervision. The witnesses on Panel II will be: The Honorable Eugene A. Ludwig, Chief Executive Officer, Promontory Financial Group, LLC; The Honorable Richard S. Carnell, Associate Professor, Fordham University School of Law, and The Honorable Martin N. Baily, Senior Fellow, Economic Studies, The Brookings Institution.
  Total: 6 Photos
  Updated on: Aug 4, 2009
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  Minimizing Potential Threats from Iran: Assessing Economic Sanctions and Other US Policy Options
  The witness on Panel I will be: The Honorable Joseph Lieberman (I-CT), United States Senator. The witnesses on Panel II will be: Ambassador Nicholas Burns, Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Politics, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University; Dr. Matthew Levitt, Director, Stein Center on Counterterrorism and Intelligence, Washington Institute for Near East Policy; Dr. Suzanne Maloney, Senior Fellow, Saban Center for Middle East Policy at Brookings; and Ms. Danielle Pletka, Vice President, Foreign and Defense Policy Studies, American Enterprise Institute.
  Total: 4 Photos
  Updated on: Jul 30, 2009
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  Regulatory Modernization: Perspectives on Insurance
  The witnesses will be: Mr. Travis Plunkett, Legislative Director, Consumer Federation of America; Mr. Baird Webel, Specialist in Financial Economics, Congressional Research Service; Professor Hal Scott, Nomura Professor of International Financial Systems, Harvard Law School; and Professor Martin Grace, James S. Kemper Professor of Risk Management, Department of Risk Management and Insurance, Georgia State University.
  Total: 4 Photos
  Updated on: Jul 28, 2009
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  Establishing a Framework for Systemic Risk Regulation
  The witnesses on Panel I will be: The Honorable Sheila Bair, Chairman, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation; The Honorable Mary Schapiro, Chairman, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission; and The Honorable Daniel Tarullo, Member, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. The witnesses on Panel II will be: Ms. Alice Rivlin, Senior Fellow, Economic Studies, Brookings Institution; Mr. Allan Meltzer, The Allan Meltzer University Professor of Political Economy, Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University; Mr. Vincent Reinhart, Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute; and Mr. Paul Schott Stevens, President and CEO, Investment Company Institute.
  Total: 9 Photos
  Updated on: Jul 23, 2009
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  Nomination Hearing 07-22-2009
  Total: 4 Photos
  Updated on: Jul 22, 2009
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  The Semiannual Monetary Policy Report to the Congress
  Total: 5 Photos
  Updated on: Jul 22, 2009
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  The U.S. as Global Competitor: What are the Elements of a National Manufacturing Strategy?
  Total: 6 Photos
  Updated on: Jul 17, 2009
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  Preserving Homeownership: Progress Needed to Prevent Foreclosures
  Total: 7 Photos
  Updated on: Jul 16, 2009
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  Creating a Consumer Financial Protection Agency: A Cornerstone of America’s New Economic Foundation
  Total: 10 Photos
  Updated on: Jul 14, 2009
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  The Effects of the Economic Crisis on Community Banks and Credit Unions in Rural Communities
  Total: 8 Photos
  Updated on: Jul 14, 2009
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  Public Transportation: A Core Climate Solution
  Total: 8 Photos
  Updated on: Jul 7, 2009
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  Banking Committee Symposium: Reforming the New Starts Process for a New Era of Transportation
  Total: 6 Photos
  Updated on: Jun 22, 2009
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  The Administration’s Proposal to Modernize the Financial Regulatory System
  Total: 7 Photos
  Updated on: Jun 18, 2009
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  Greener Communities, Greater Opportunities: New Ideas for Sustainable Development and Economic Growth
  Total: 6 Photos
  Updated on: Jun 16, 2009
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  The State of the Domestic Automobile Industry: Impact of Federal Assistance
  Total: 5 Photos
  Updated on: Jun 10, 2009
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  Nomination Hearing 06-04-2009
  Total: 3 Photos
  Updated on: Jun 4, 2009
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  Oversight of the Troubled Assets Relief Program
  Total: 3 Photos
  Updated on: May 20, 2009
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  Manufacturing and the Credit Crisis
  Total: 4 Photos
  Updated on: May 13, 2009
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  Strengthening the S.E.C.’s Vital Enforcement Responsibilities
  Total: 6 Photos
  Updated on: May 13, 2009
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  Regulating and Resolving Institutions Considered ‘Too Big to Fail’ Hearing
  Total: 9 Photos
  Updated on: May 6, 2009
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  Nomination Hearing 04-23-2009
  Total: 8 Photos
  Updated on: Apr 23, 2009
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  Photo Gallery
  Total: 8 Photos
  Updated on: Apr 20, 2009