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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
bank A bank is a financial institution that accepts deposits from the public and creates a demand deposit while simultaneously making loans. Lending activities can be directly performed by the bank or indirectly through capital markets. Because ...
s and banking, price controls,
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,
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promotion and controls, federal
monetary policy Monetary policy is the policy adopted by the monetary authority of a nation to control either the interest rate payable for very short-term borrowing (borrowing by banks from each other to meet their short-term needs) or the money supply, often a ...
, financial aid to commerce and industry, issuance of redemption of notes,
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and coinage, public and private housing,
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, mass transit 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
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in the
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. The committee was formally established as the "Committee on Banking and Currency" in 1913, when Senator Robert L. Owen of
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sponsored the
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. 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. 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

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List of current United States Senate committees This is a complete list of U.S. congressional committees (standing committees and select or special committees) that are operating in the United States Senate. Senators can be a member of more than one committee. Standing committees , there are ...
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United States House Committee on Financial Services The United States House Committee on Financial Services, also referred to as the House Banking Committee and previously known as the Committee on Banking and Currency, is the committee of the United States House of Representatives that oversees t ...
, the congressional counterpart of this committee *
Pecora Commission The Pecora Investigation was an inquiry begun on March 4, 1932, by the United States Senate Committee on Banking and Currency to investigate the causes of the Wall Street Crash of 1929. The name refers to the fourth and final chief counsel for th ...
, the commission established to investigate the causes of the
Wall Street Crash of 1929 The Wall Street Crash of 1929, also known as the Great Crash, was a major American stock market crash that occurred in the autumn of 1929. It started in September and ended late in October, when share prices on the New York Stock Exchange colla ...


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. {{DEFAULTSORT:United States Senate Committee On Banking, Housing, And Urban Affairs
Banking A bank is a financial institution that accepts deposits from the public and creates a demand deposit while simultaneously making loans. Lending activities can be directly performed by the bank or indirectly through capital markets. Because ...
1913 establishments in Washington, D.C. Organizations established in 1913