The Role of the Financial Stability Board in the U.S. Regulatory Framework
Senate Banking Committee
Witnesses
The Honorable Dirk Kempthorne
President and CEO
American Council of Life Insurers (ACLI)
Mr. Eugene Scalia [view testimony]
Partner
Gibson, Dunn, & Crutcher
Mr. Paul Schott Stevens
President and CEO
Investment Company Institute
The Honorable Peter Wallison
Arthur F. Burns Fellow in Financial Policy Studies
American Enterprise Institute (AEI)
Dr. Adam S. Posen
President
Peterson Institute for International Economics
Hearing: H.R. 2947, the “Financial Institution Bankruptcy Act of 2015.”
House Judiciary Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial and Antitrust Law.
Witnesses
Mr. Donald S. Bernstein Esq.
Partner
Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP
Mr. Stephen E. Hessler Esq.
Partner
Kirkland & Ellis LLP
Mr. Richard Levin Esq.
Partner
Jenner & Block LLP
Evaluating the Security of the U.S. Financial Sector
Witness List:
- The Honorable Cyrus Vance, Jr., District Attorney, New York County District Attorney’s Office
- Mr. Chip Poncy, Founding Partner, Financial Integrity Network; Senior Counselor, Center on Sanctions and Illicit Finance at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies
- Mr. John W. Carlson, Chief of Staff, Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center
The Dodd-Frank Act and Regulatory Overreach
Witnesses:
Mr. Paul G. Mahoney, Dean and Professor of Law, University of Virginia School of Law
Ms. Hester Peirce, Director, Financial Markets Working Group and Senior Research Fellow, Mercatus Center, George Mason University
Dr. Marcus Stanley, Policy Director, Americans for Financial Reform
H.R. 1927, the “Fairness in Class Action Litigation Act of 2015”
Witnesses
- John H. Beisner
Partner
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
- Mark A. Behrens
Partner
Shook, Hardy & Bacon, L.L.P.
- Alexandra D. Lahav
Joel Barlow Professor of Law
University of Connecticut School of Law
- Andrew J. Trask
Counsel
McQuire Woods
H.R. 758, the “Lawsuit Abuse Reduction Act”
Witnesses
- Elizabeth Milito
Senior Executive Counsel
NFIB Small Business Legal Center
- Robert S. Peck
President
Center for Constitutional Litigation, PC
- Cary Silverman
Partner
Shook, Hardy & Bacon LLP
Consumers Shortchanged? Oversight of the Justice Department’s Mortgage Lending Settlements
Witness Panel 1
- Geoffrey Graber
Deputy Associate Attorney General and Director, RMBS Working Group of the Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force
U.S. Department of Justice
Witness Panel 2
- Paul Larkin
Senior Legal Research Fellow, Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies
Heritage Foundation
- Ted Frank
Founder
Center for Class Action Fairness
- Cornelia Mrose
CEO
Compass Films of New York LLC
- Alan White
Professor of Law
CUNY School of Law