WASHINGTON – Following up on questions posed during yesterday’s Banking Committee hearing on U.S. financial stability, U.S. Senator Bob Corker, R-Tenn., today sent a letter to FDIC Chairman Martin Gruenberg asking him to end favoritism for creditors when establishing rules for liquidating a failed bank. Many industry analysts believe implementation of the orderly liquidation process under Title II of the Dodd-Frank Act could protect creditors of a failing financial institution from taking losses if the debt is not issued at the holding company level. “I urged you to ac... [continue]

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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bob Corker, R-Tenn., said he hopes President Obama will focus on fiscal issues when he delivers his State of the Union address tonight.
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February 17, 2013 - Senator Corker, ranking member of the Foreign Relations Committee, receives a briefing from AFISMA (African-led International Support Mission in Mali) command leadership in Bamako, Mali during a fact-finding trip in West Africa today.

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