The United States Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs (formerly the Committee on Banking and Currency), also known as the Senate Banking Committee, has jurisdiction over matters related to
banks and banking,
price controls
Price controls are restrictions set in place and enforced by governments, on the prices that can be charged for goods and services in a market. The intent behind implementing such controls can stem from the desire to maintain affordability of good ...
,
deposit insurance
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,
export promotion and controls, federal
monetary policy, financial aid to commerce and industry, issuance of redemption of notes,
currency and coinage, public and private housing,
urban development,
mass transit
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and government contracts.
The current chair of the committee is Democrat Sherrod Brown of Ohio, and the Ranking Member is Republican Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania.
History
The committee is one of twenty
standing committees
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in the
United States Senate. The committee was formally established as the "Committee on Banking and Currency" in 1913, when Senator
Robert L. Owen
Robert Latham Owen Jr. (February 2, 1856July 19, 1947) was one of the first two U.S. senators from Oklahoma. He served in the Senate between 1907 and 1925.
Born into affluent circumstances in antebellum Lynchburg, Virginia, the son of a railroa ...
of
Oklahoma
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sponsored the
Federal Reserve Act. Senator Owen served as the committee's inaugural chairman.
Jurisdiction
In accordance of Rule XXV of the United States Senate, all proposed legislation, messages, petitions, memorials, and other matters relating to the following subjects are referred to the Senate Banking Committee:
# Banks, banking, and financial institutions;
# Control of prices of commodities, rents, and services;
# Deposit insurance;
# Economic stabilization and defense production;
# Export and foreign trade promotion;
# Export controls;
# Federal monetary policy, including Federal Reserve System;
# Financial aid to commerce and industry;
# Issuance and redemption of notes;
# Money and credit, including currency and coinage;
# Nursing home construction;
# Public and private housing (including veterans' housing);
# Renegotiation of Government contracts; and,
# Urban development and urban mass transit.
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The Senate Banking Committee is also charged to "study and review, on a comprehensive basis, matters relating to international economic policy as it affects United States monetary affairs, credit, and financial institutions; economic growth, urban affairs, and credit, and report thereon from time to time."
Members, 117th Congress
Subcommittees
Chairs
Committee on Banking and Currency, 1913–1970
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, 1970–present
Historical membership rosters
116th Congress
;Subcommittees
115th Congress
Subcommittees
Source
114th Congress
Subcommittees
113th Congress
See also
*
List of current United States Senate committees
*
United States House Committee on Financial Services, the congressional counterpart of this committee
*
Pecora Commission, the commission established to investigate the causes of the
Wall Street Crash of 1929
References
External links
U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban AffairsArchive
Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee
Legislation activity and reports, Congress.gov
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1913 establishments in Washington, D.C.
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