Today will receive testimony from the honorable randall orosz, Federal Reserve vice chairman for supervision. The honorable eleanor mcwilliams chairman of the ftse and the honorable rodney hood chairman of the ncua. Welcome to all of you. This hearing provides committee an opportunity to examine the current state of and recent activities related to regulatory and supervisory activities of these agencies. Its been over a year now since the enactment of s 2155 Economic Growth regulatory relief and Consumer Protection act and the work of the agencies to implement most of the laws provision. Your agency should also carefully review the existing supervisory frameworks and make necessary adjustments to appropriately align them with the tailoring rules and requirements. On july 30, 2019 all Republican Banking Committee members and i sent a letter to the federal banking regulators urging your agencies to finalize several outstanding positions of s 2155 such as the Community Bank leverage ratio
Really understands. Its a great combination of things. This is the fourth position secretary bunch has had at the smithsonian. Something i dont believe any of your predecessors could claim in 1978 secretary bunch began his smithsonian career at the national air and space museum as an Education Specialist 11 years later he joined the National Museum of American History. He most recently served as the founding director of the National Museum of African American history and culture. As the founding director he led an 11 year effort in constructing the 400,000 squarefoot museum and helping raise the matching publicprivate private funds that match public funds and came up with the museum that tells an incredibly powerful story of that part of our history. And a lot of our history. Congress established the smithsonian in 1846 through uppercrust by a british scientist James Smithson who never visited the United States but he generously left his estate to the United States government to found
Its. Next, testimony from financial regulators on oversight and other issues including Digital Currency, banking liquidity rules and the impact Climate Change could have on the financial industry. Held by the Senate Banking committee this is an hour and 40 minutes. [inaudible background conversations] this meeting will come to order. Today will receive testimony from the honorable randall orosz, Federal Reserve vice chairman for supervision. The honorable eleanor mcwilliams chairman of the ftse and the honorable rodney hood chairman of the ncua. Welcome to all of you. This hearing provides committee an opportunity to examine the current state of and recent activities related to regulatory and supervisory activities of these agencies. Its been over a year now since the enactment of s 2155 Economic Growth regulatory relief and Consumer Protection act and the work of the agencies to implement most of the laws provision. Your agency should also carefully review the existing supervisory fra
Good morning everyone. The committee will come to order we are meeting to examine an issue that effectively weve been at a stalemate for quite some time. What we should do with used nuclear fuel accumulating at the Nuclear Reactors. At a starting point we should recognize that Nuclear Energy is an important part of our countrys electric generation. I believe its a vital part of our mix. The large reactors not landscape provide reliable admissions free power to communities across our country. Our Nations Nuclear industry is critically important but it also faces a number of challenges and one that impacted the first reactors began operation and Nuclear Waste disposition. Beginning with the passage of the Nuclear Waste policy act of 1982 congress attempted several times to address the backend of the fuel cycle. In an effort to resolve an earlier stalemate the federal government was supposed to begin taking title to use fuel and moving it to a repository at Yucca Mountain in nevada beginn
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