Oversight of the Bankruptcy Code, Part 1: Confronting Abuses of the Chapter 11 System
The House Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial, and Administrative Law held a hearing on July 28 titled, "Oversight of the Bankruptcy Code, Part 1: Confronting Abuses of the Chapter 11 System."
Witnesses
Prof. Douglas G. Baird
Chair, National Bankruptcy Conference; and Harry A. Bigelow Distinguished Service Professor of Law, University of Chicago Law School
Prof. Adam Levitin
Anne Fleming Research Professor and Professor of Law, Georgetown Law
Alexis Pleus
Founder, Executive Director, Board Ex Officio Chair, Truth Pharma
Tasha Schwikert Moser
Bronze Medal Olympic Gymnast, Attorney, and Sex Abuse Survivor
Prof. David A. Skeel, Jr.
S. Samuel Arsht Professor of Corporate Law, University of Pennsylvania Law School
The Honorable William Tong
Attorney General, The State of Connecticut
Hybrid Hearing with Treasury Secretary Steven T. Mnuchin
Equitable Algorithms: Examining Ways to Reduce AI Bias in Financial Services
Witness List
- Dr. Philip Thomas, Assistant Professor and co-director of the Autonomous Learning Lab, College of Information and Computer Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst
- Dr. Makada Henry-Nickie, Fellow, Race Prosperity and Inclusion Initiative Governance Studies Program, Brookings Institution
- Dr. Michael Kearns, Professor and National Center Chair, Department of Computer and Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania
- Ms. Bärí A. Williams, Attorney and Emerging Tech AI & Privacy Advisor
- Mr. Rayid Ghani, Distinguished Career Professor, Machine Learning Department and Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University
Challenges and Solutions: Access to Banking Services for Cannabis-Related Businesses
Legislation
- H.R.____, “The Secure And Fair Enforcement Banking Act of 2019” [DRAFT]
Witness List
Panel I
- The Honorable Ed Perlmutter, Member of Congress
Panel II
- The Honorable Fiona Ma, California State Treasurer
- Maj. Neill Franklin (Ret.), Baltimore City & Maryland State Police Departments, and Executive Director, Law Enforcement Action Partnership (LEAP)
- Ms. Rachel Pross, Chief Risk Officer, Maps Credit Union, on behalf of Credit Union National Association (CUNA)
- Mr. Gregory S. Deckard, President, CEO and Chairman, State Bank Northwest, on behalf of Independent Community Bankers of America (ICBA)
- Mr. Corey Barnette, Owner, District Growers Cultivation Center & Metropolitan Wellness Center
- Mr. Jonathan H. Talcott, Chairman, Smart Approaches to Marijuana (SAM)
Putting Consumers First? A Semi-Annual Review of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Legislation
- H.R.____, “ the Consumers First Act” [DRAFT]
Witness List
Panel I
- The Honorable Kathy Kraninger, Director, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Panel II
- Mr. Hilary Shelton, Director & Senior Vice President for Advocacy and Policy, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
- Ms. Linda Jun, Senior Policy Counsel, Americans for Financial Reform
- Ms. Jennifer Davis, Government Relations Deputy Director, National Military Family Association
- Mr. Seth Frotman, Executive Director, Student Borrower Protection Center
- Mr. Scott Weltman, Managing Shareholder, Weltman, Weinberg & Reis Co., L.P.A.
Holding Megabanks Accountable: A Review of Global Systemically Important Banks 10 years after the Financial Crisis
Witness List
- Mr. Michael L. Corbat, Chief Executive Officer, Citigroup
- Mr. James Dimon, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, JP Morgan Chase & Co.
- Mr. James P. Gorman, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Morgan Stanley
- Mr. Brian T. Moynihan, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Bank of America
- Mr. Ronald P. O’Hanley, President & Chief Executive Officer, State Street Corporation
- Mr. Charles W. Scharf, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Bank of New York Mellon
- Mr. David M. Solomon, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Goldman Sachs
Emerging Threats to Stability: Considering the Systemic Risk of Leveraged Lending
Legislation
- H.R. ____, the “Protecting the Independent Funding of the Office of Financial Research Act” [DRAFT]
- H.R. ____, the “Leveraged Lending Data and Analysis Act” [DRAFT]
- H.R. ____, the “Leveraged Lending Examination Enhancement Act” [DRAFT]
Witness List
- Erik F. Gerding, Professor of Law & Wolf-Nichol Fellow, University of Colorado Law School
- Victoria Ivashina, Lovett-Learned Chaired Professor of Finance, Harvard Business School
- Gaurav Vasisht, Senior Vice President and Director, Financial Regulation Initiatives, The Volcker Alliance
- Gregory Nini, Assistant Professor of Finance, LeBow College of Business, Drexel University
An Examination of State Efforts to Oversee the $1.5 Trillion Student Loan Servicing Market
Witness List
- Joe Sanders, Student Loan Ombudsman and Supervising Attorney, Consumer Fraud Bureau, Illinois Attorney General's Office
- Nicholas Smyth, Assistant Director for Consumer Financial Protection, Senior Deputy Attorney General, Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General
- Arwen Thoman, Director, Student Loan Assistance Unit, and Investigations Supervisor, Massachusetts Attorney General's Office
- Joanna Darcus, Massachusetts Legal Assistance Corporation Racial Justice Fellow, National Consumer Law Center
- Scott Buchanan, Executive Director, Student Loan Servicing Alliance
Oversight of Bankruptcy Law and Legislative Proposals
Sen. Richard Durbin (D-Ill.)
Rep. Nydia M. Velázquez (D-N.Y.)
Rep. Ben Cline (R.-Va.)
Rep. Antonio Delgado (D-N.Y.)
Panel Two:
Ms. Hollister K. Petraeus
Former Assistant Director, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's Office of Servicemember Affairs
Mr. Robert Keach on behalf of The American Bankruptcy Institute
Mr. Ed Boltz Esq. on behalf of The National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys
Mr. John Rao on behalf of The National Consumer Law Center
Ms. Dalié Jiménez
Professor, University of California Irvine School of Law
The Honorable Thomas Small on behalf of The National Bankruptcy Conference