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HRES 553 111th Congress House Finance and Financial Sector Bank accounts, deposits, capital Consumer affairs Consumer credit Credit and credit markets Financial crises and stabilization Interest, dividends, interest rates

Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the Secretary of the Treasury and the Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System should protect and enhance consumer and business access to credit by utilizing the provisions of the Federal Reserve Act and the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, and reserving access to liquidity programs for those financial institutions that have maintained or increased lending activities since the height of our economic crisis in October 2008.

Introduced: June 17, 2009 Introduced by: Waters, Maxine Democratic · California See on congress.gov
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Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
Jun 17, 2009
Introduced in House
 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the Secretary of the Treasury and the Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System should: (1) protect and enhance American consumers' and businesses' access to credit; (2) encourage credit card issuers, banks, and other creditors to recognize long-standing customers who are in good standing by not cutting their credit lines or raising their interest rates; and (3) reserve access to programs under the Federal Reserve Act and the Emergency Response Stabilization Act for those institutions that are working to increase consumer and business access to credit.

What's happening now June 17, 2009

Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.

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