Historical associations congressional briefing on historical perspectives of artificial. Im alexandra levy, Communications Manager at the American Store association, and i coordinate the briefings for the they thank you all for taking the time to be today. Im going to provide a little context for what were doing here this morning. The chase congressional briefings program, which dates back to 2005, provides congressional staff, journalists and others in the policy community with the historical background necessary to understand the context. Current legislative concerns. The program rests on the premise that everything has a history and that anyone involved in policies and decisions of any kind, whether in the corporate government or nonprofit worlds, ought to understand how positive hints and policies have shaped the current landscape. Our second premise is it is possible to provide that Historical Context in a manner that is nonpartisan and unencumbered with a particular legislative a
This hearing is just under four hours. I spent. [background noises] the committee will come to order. Without objection the chair is authorized to declare a racist of the committee at any time by this hearing is entitled semi annual report of the bureau of financial protection. Without objection all members will have five legislative days within which to submit extraneous materials to the chair or inclusion in the record. I now recognize myself for four minutes to give an Opening Statement. Thank you director for being here today. As the director you wear a lot of hats. You are a member of the federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and the Financial Stability oversight consult. This committee spent a lot of time understanding how regulators reacted to the failures of Silicon Valley macon signature bank. Given both the fcic have equal rolls in the failures i am looking forward to hear about your involvement in the decisionmaking process. As we said the fdics chair grunberg and pfister ba
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