the Bank Capital Framework was not designed to, and does not, take into account the critically significant differences between the business of banking and the business of insurance...
It was not the intent of Congress to supplant prudential State-based insurance regulation with a bank-centric capital re...
Indeed, Congress would be departing from its own fundamental principles if it sought to bind future Congresses from abso...
I would strongly urge Congress to act to prevent a result that is so clearly unwarranted and potentially so damaging.
the legislation previously proposed by Senators Brown and Johanns, and today by Senator Collins, represents a sound basi...
that, in the financial crisis, holding companies were a source of weakness, rather than strength, to their operating sub...
Consideration should be given to the distinctions between banks and insurance companies.
it was not Congress's intent that Federal regulators supplant prudential State-based insurance regulation with a bank-ce...
I believe that the language that I have introduced should give the Fed the clarity it needs.
I want to especially thank you, Chairman Brown and Senator Johanns, for your hard work.
My legislation would add language to Section 171 to clarify that in establishing minimum capital requirements for holdin...