Below are recent statements from the Shadow Committees, in reverse chronological order. (Go here for annual reports.)

May 5, 2008 

• Video and Event Information
• Statement No. 260: "Reducing Inappropriate Political Pressure on the Federal Reserve"
• Statement No. 259: "Mortgage Delinquencies and Foreclosures"
• Statement No. 258: "If Bear Had Been a Bank"

February 11, 2008 

• Video and Event Information
• Statement No. 257: "Reliance on Third-Party Credit Ratings"
• Statement No. 256: "Industrial Loan Company (ILC) Legislation"
• Statement No. 255: "Facilitating Mortgage Renegotiations: The Policy Issues"
• Statement No. 254: "Facilitating FDIC Bank Failure Resolution"

December 10, 2007 

• Video and Event Information
• Statement No. 253: "Would Basel II Have Helped Prevent the Subprime Turmoil?"
• Statement No. 252: "Doubts about the Master Liquidity Enhancement Conduit (M-LEC)"
• Statement No. 251: "Government-Sponsored Enterprises"
• Statement No. 250: "Treasury Department's Mortgage Foreclosure Program"

September 17, 2007 

• Video and Event Information 
• Joint Statement: "Lessons from Recent Financial Turmoil"
• Statement No. 249: "Financial Turmoil and Implications for Mortgages and Related Mortgage Securities"
• Statement No. 248: "Lessons for Basel II from the Recent Financial Turmoil"

May 7, 2007

• Statement No. 247:  "Limitations on Auditors' Liability"
• Statement No. 246:  "Allowing U.S. and EU Corporations to Adopt U.S. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) or International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS)"
• Statement No. 245:  "Subprime Mortgage Lending Remedies and Concerns"
• Statement No. 244:  "The Usefulness of Hedge Fund Post-Mortems"
• Statement No. 243:  "The SEC's Proposed Prohibition of Notching"

February 12, 2007

• Statement No. 242:  "The Competitiveness of U.S. Securities Markets"
• Statement No. 241:  "The FDIC's ILC Moratorium"
• Statement No. 240:  "The Proposed Merger of Principal U.S. Futures Exchanges"
• Statement No. 239:  "Facilitating Bank Failure Resolution"

December 4, 2006

• Statement No. 238:  "Basel II: One-and-a-Half Cheers for the Standardized Approach"
• Statement No. 237:  "Shareholder Access to Director Elections"
• Statement No. 236:  "A Financial Agenda for the New Congress"

September 18, 2006

• Statement No. 235:  "Risks of Bank Concentration in Commercial Real Estate Lending"
• Statement No. 234:  "Enhancing Competition in the Sale of Stock Market Data"
• Statement No. 233:  "The FDIC's Proposed Risk-Based Assessment System"

May 8, 2006

• Statement No. 232:  "Strengthening the Capital Structure of Federal Home Loan Banks"
• Statement No. 231:  "Welcome Actions by the Securities and Exchange Commission"
• Statement No. 230:  "Federal Preemption for Financial Services Firms"

February 13, 2006

• Statement No. 229:  "Open Letter to Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke"
• Statement No. 228:  "The Disclosure of Soft Dollars by Investment Advisers"
• Statement No. 227:  "Margin Regulations"
• Statement No. 226:  "FDIC Replenishing of the Deposit Insurance Fund"

December 5, 2005

• Statement No. 225:  "SEC Adoption of Communications Advances"
• Statement No. 224:  "Wal-Mart's Pending Application to Acquire an Industrial Loan Company"
• Statement No. 223:  "Whatever Becomes of Basel II, Prompt Corrective Action and the Leverage Ratios Should be Preserved"

September 12, 2005

• Statement No. 222: "Open Letter to SEC Chairman Christopher Cox" 
• Statement No. 221: "The Housing Enterprise Regulatory Reform Act of 2005 (S. 190)"

May 16, 2005

• Statement No. 220: "Deposit Insurance Legislation"
• Statement No. 219: "Evaluating Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act Concerning Internal Controls"
• Statement No. 218: "Limiting GSE Portfolios"

February 14, 2005 

• Statement No. 217:  "Regulation NMS"
• Statement No. 216:  "Proposed Legislation to Regulate the GSEs"
• Statement No. 215:  "Sunset the PCAOB"
• Statement No. 214:  "Expanded FDIC Examination Authority"   

December 6, 2004

• Statement No. 213:  "The Impending Crisis in Defined Benefit Pensions"
• Statement No. 212:  "The Financial Services Agenda for the Second Bush Administration"
• Statement No. 211:  "The Insurance Brokerage Scandal"

September 20, 2004

• Statement No. 210:  "The SEC's Proposal for Regulating Hedge Funds"
• Statement No. 209:  "International Accounting Standards"
• Statement No. 208:  "The Pressing Need for Corporate Pension Reform"

May 24, 2004

• Statement No. 207:  "The Possible Extension of the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act"
• Statement No. 206:  "Prohibition of Directed Brokerage and Other Abuses by Investment Management Companies"
• Statement No. 205:  "Regulation NMS and Securities Market Structure"

February 9, 2004

• Statement No. 204:  "Enabling Institutional Investors to Play a More Effective Role in Corporate Governance" 
• Statement No. 203:  "Toward a Single Transatlantic Market in Financial Services"

December 8, 2003

• Statement No. 202:  "Simple Proposal to Deal with Market Timing and After-Hours Trading"
• Statement No. 201:  "New York Stock Exchange Governance and Market Structure Issues" 
• Statement No. 200:  "Mutual Fund Expenses and Soft Dollars" 
• Statement No. 199:  "SEC Proposals for More Shareholder Democracy" 

September 22, 2003

• Statement No. 198:  "Taxpayer Exposure to Liabilities of the Pension Benefit Guarantee Corporation" 
• Statement No. 197:  "The Responsibilities of Financial Professionals and Firms in Recent Financial Scandals" 
• Statement No. 196:  "Legislation on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac" 
• Statement No. 195:  "Predatory Lending and Federal Preemption of State Laws" 

May 5, 2003

• Statement No. 194:  "Removal of Archaic Bank Regulatory Restrictions" 
• Statement No. 193:  "The Latest Revisions to Basel II and Implementation Plans in the United States" 
• Statement No. 192:  "Enforcement Settlement with Wall Street Investment Firms" 
• Statement No. 191:  "The European Union's Financial Conglomerate Directive"
• Statement No. 190:  "Access by Institutional Investors to Foreign Electronic Trading Venues"  

February 24, 2003

• Statement No. 189:  "The Registration of Mortgage Backed Securities of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac"
• Statement No. 188:  "Glass Steagall, Tying and Conflicts of Interest"
• Statement No. 187:  "The SEC's Concern with Short Selling"
• Statement No. 186:  "State and Federal Securities Market Regulation" 

December 9, 2002

• Statement No. 185:  "A Financial Agenda for the New Congress"
• Statement No. 184:  "Disclosure of Portfolio Holdings of Registered Investment Companies"
• Statement No. 183:  "SEC Standards for Designating Nationally-Recognized Credit Rating Organizations"

September 23, 2002

• Statement No. 182:  "A Proposed Federal Backstop for Terrorism Insurance and Reinsurance"
• Statement No. 181:  "Fannie Mae's Duration Gap"

May 5, 2002

• Statement No. 180:  "The Responsibility of Independent Auditors to Shareholders of Publicly Traded Corporations" 
• Statement No. 179:  "The Basel 2 Approach to Bank Operational Risk"
• Statement No. 178:  "Statement on Shays-Markey Bill on GSE Disclosure"

February 25, 2002

• Statement No. 177:  "Pension Reform in the Wake of Enron's Collapse"
• Statement No. 176:  "Enron and Accounting Issues" 
• Statement No. 175:  "Deposit Insurance Reform"

December 3, 2001

• Statement No. 174:  "The Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act"
• Statement No. 173:  "Predatory Lending" 
• Statement No. 172:  "Terrorism Insurance"

May 7, 2001

• Statement No. 171:  "Assuring Discipline of the Housing GSEs"
• Statement No. 170:  "Optional Federal Chartering of Insurance Companies"

February 26, 2001

• Statement No. 169:  "The Basel Committee's Revised Capital Accord Proposal"
• Statement No. 168:  "Requiring Large Banks to Issue Subordinated Debt" 

December 4, 2000

• Statement No. 167:  "Comptrollers' Proposed Pilot Program Permitting Increased Lending Limits for Community Banks" 
• Statement No. 166:  "An Open Letter to the New President and Congress on an Agenda for Financial Reform"
• Statement No. 165:  "Deposit Insurance Reform Options"

September 25, 2000

• Statement No. 164:  "Privatizing the Housing GSEs"
• Statement No. 163:  "The Regulation of Derivative Instruments"

May 8, 2000

• Statement No. 162:  "Increasing Deposit Insurance Coverage to $200,000" 
• Statement No. 161:  "Full Cost Pricing of Supervisory and Examination Services"

March 2, 2000

• Statement No. 160:  "Reforming Bank Capital Regulation"

December 13, 1999

• Statement No. 159:  "Federal Home Loan Banks" 
• Statement No. 158:  "Proposed Federal Catastrophe Reinsurance"

September 27, 1999

• Statement No. 157:  "The Failures of BestBank and First National Bank of Keystone"
• Statement No. 156:  "The Basle Committee's New Capital Adequacy Framework"

April 26, 1999

• Statement No. 155:  "The Latest Round of Bills on Financial Modernization"
• Statement No. 154:  "Revising the Basle Capital Standards"

December 7, 1998

• Statement No. 153:  "The Federal Reserve Board and Prudential Supervision" 
• Statement No. 152:  "The G7's New Precautionary Credit Line Facility for the IMF and its Use in Brazil"

September 28, 1998

• Statement No. 151:  "The Issues Posed by the Near-Collapse of Long-Term Capital Management"
• Statement No. 150:  "The Senate’s Version of H.R.10" 
• Statement No. 149:  "The Use of Private Credit Ratings for Determining Capital Requirements for Securitization" 
• Statement No. 148:  "Principles for Reforming the 'Global Financial Architecture'"

May 4, 1998

• Statement No. 147:  "Mergers and Acquisitions in the Banking Industry"
• Statement No. 146:  "The Credit Union Membership Access Act, H.R. 1151"
• Statement No. 145:  "International Monetary Fund Assistance and International Crises" 
• Statement No. 144:  "Expanded Powers for Federal Home Loan Banks"

December 7, 1997

• Statement No. 143:  "Sweep Accounts and the Prohibition on Paying Interest on Reserve Balances and Demand Deposits" 
• Statement No. 142:  "Congress and Financial Reform" 
• Statement No. 141:  "Strategic Plans of Federal Financial Institution Regulatory Agencies"

September 22, 1997

• Statement No. 140:  "Mortgage Lending by Federal Home Loan Banks"
• Statement No. 139:  "H.R. 10 ("Leach Bill") and the Commerce Subcommittee Draft"

May 5, 1997

• Statement No. 138:  "Restrictions on Banking-Commerce Affiliations"
• Statement No. 137:  "Bank Activities and the Extension of Bank Subsidies"

December 9, 1996

• Statement No. 136:  "Recent Fed and OCC Rulings on Permissible Bank Activities"
• Statement No. 135:  "An Open Letter to President Clinton on Financial Reform"

May 6, 1996

• Statement No. 134:  "A Proposal for Privatization of the Federal Home Loan Bank System"
• Statement No. 133:  "Proposed Legislation on Enterprise Resource Banks (The "Baker Bill", H.R. 3167)"
• Statement No. 132:  "Disclosure of Examination Reports and Ratings"

February 12, 1996

• Statement No. 131:  "Extending the Credit Reform Act to GSEs"
• Statement No. 130:  "Expansion of Bank Powers by Regulation"

December 11, 1995

• Statement No. 129:  "Ownership of Stock by Bank Directors"
• Statement No. 128:  "Bank Merger Law and Policy"
• Statement No. 127:  "Reduction in Premiums for BIF-Insured Institutions"
• Statement No. 126:  "Values of Bank Capital Tripwires for Prompt Corrective Action and Least Cost Resolution"

September 18, 1995

• Statement No. 125:  "Alternatives to Recapitalizing the Savings Association Insurance Fund and Defeasing the FICO Bonds"
• Statement No. 124:  "The Banking Agencies' Proposed Interest Rate Risk Capital Standards"

May 22, 1995

• Statement No. 123:  "Alternatives to Recapitalizing the Savings Association Insurance Fund"
• Statement No. 122:  "Federal Reserve Proposal for Pricing Daylight Overdrafts"
• Statement No. 121:  "Proposed Amendments to Part 5 of the Regulations of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency"
• Statement No. 120:  "The Leach Bill"
• Statement No. 119:  "Wholesale Banking Proposal Under H.R. 1062"
• Statement No. 118:  "Principles of Bank Reform-Guidelines fir Assessing Pending Legislative Proposals"

February 13, 1995

• Statement No. 117:  "Emergency Assistance for Mexico"
• Statement No. 116:  "Open Letter on Financial Reform to the Senate and House Banking Committees"

December 12, 1994

• Statement No. 115:  "Repeal of the Bank Holding Company Act and Restrictions on Product Diversification for Banking Organizations"
• Statement No. 114:  "FDIC Insurance Assessments"
• Statement No. 113:  "Proposed Community Reinvestment Act Regulations"
• Statement No. 112:  "Regulatory Agency Measurement of Bank Capital for Prompt Corrective Action"

September 26, 1994

• Statement No. 111:  "Riegle-Neal Interstate Banking and Branching Efficiency Act of 1994"
• Statement No. 110:  "Final Rules on Incorporating Concentrations of Credit Risks Into Risk-Based Capital Standards"

May 23, 1994

• Statement No. 109:  "Financial Accounting Standard 1.1.5"
• Statement No. 108:  "Proposed Increases in FHA Insurance Limits"
• Statement No. 107:  "Federal Displacement of State Laws: Fair Credit Reporting and Interstate Branching"
• Statement No. 106:  "Proposed Lengthening of Examination Schedules and Required Independent Audits for Thrift Institutions"

February 14, 1994

• Statement No. 105:  "Proposed Revisions to Community Reinvestment Regulations"
• Statement No. 104:  "Mutual to Stock Conversions of Thrift Institutions"
• Statement No. 103:  "Principles of Regulatory Restructuring"

December 13, 1993

• Statement No. 102:  "Deterioration in the Financial Condition of the Pension Benefit Guarantee Corporation"
• Statement No. 101:  "Safety and Soundness Standards"
• Statement No. 100:  "The Proposed Federal Banking Commission"

September 20, 1993

• Statement No. 99:  "Proposals to Permit Banks to Branch on an Interstate Basis"
• Statement No. 98:  "The New Depositor Preference Legislation"

May 24, 1993

• Statement No. 97:  "FDIC Pilot Reinsurance Program"
• Statement No. 96:  "Modifying Risk-Based Capital Standards to Account for Interest-Rate Risk"
• Statement No. 95:  "Fair Value Reporting for Insured Depository Institutions Required Under FDICIA"
• Statement No. 94:  "The Policy of Authorizing "Minimal Documentation" Loans"

March 1, 1993

• Statement No. 93:  "Taxpayer Risks in the Pension Benefit Guarantee System"
• Statement No. 92:  "FDIC Action on Critically Undercapitalized Banks"
• Statement No. 91:  "Proposed Changes in the FDIC's Risk-Related Premium System"

December 14, 1992

• Statement No. 90:  "An Open Letter to President Clinton"

September 14, 1992

• Statement No. 89:  "Standards for Safety and Soundness"
• Statement No. 88:  "Proposed Rule on Interbank Exposure"
• Statement No. 87:  "Rule Proposed by Bank Regulators to Control Interest Rate Risk"

June 1, 1992

• Statement No. 86:  "SEC Listing Requirements for Foreign Companies"
• Statement No. 85:  "The TDPOP's Proposed Early Resolution/Assisted Merger Program"
• Statement No. 84:  "Brokered Deposits and Capital Requirements"
• Statement No. 83:  "The FDIC's Proposed Schedule of Risk-Sensitive Premiums"

February 17, 1992

• Statement No. 82:  "Need to Regulate Interest Rate Risk"
• Statement No. 81:  "Using Risk-Related Capital Standards to Promote Housing"
• Statement No. 80:  "FDIC's Program for 'Hospitalizing Sick Banks'"

December 16, 1991

• Statement No. 79:  "Interagency Policy Statement on Commercial Real Estate Loans"
• Statement No. 78:  "United States Listing Requirements for Foreign Companies"
• Statement No. 77:  "Accounting for Taxpayers' Stake in the FDIC's Bank Insurance Fund"
• Statement No. 76:  "FDIC Improvement Act of 1991"

September 16, 1991

• Statement No. 75:  "Protecting Taxpayers from Risks of Government Sponsored Enterprises"
• Statement No. 74:  "Bank of Credit & Commerce International"
• Statement No. 73:  "Additional Comments of Deposit Insurance Reform Legislation"
• Statement No. 72:  "OMB & CBO Statements Calling for More Informative Accounting & Budgeting for Deposit Insurance"

May 20, 1991

• Statement No. 71:  "Need to Develop a Satisfactory Databasae with which to Analyze the Economic Condition of Insurance Companies"
• Statement No. 70:  "Funding of the BIF and Depository Insurance Reform Proposals in H.R. 2094"

February 11, 1991

• Statement No. 69:  "FASB's Proposed Statement of Financial Accounting Standards Concerning 'Disclosures About Market Value of Financial Instruments'"
• Statement No. 68:  "OTS Proposal for Capital Requirement for Interest Rate Risk"
• Statement No. 67:  "Concerns About the Availability of Bank Credit"
• Statement No. 66:  "Proposals to Inject Additional Funds into the Bank Insurance Fund"
• Statement No. 65:  "Treasury's Deposit Insurance Reform Recommendations"

December 10, 1990

• Statement No. 64:  "FDIC Ownership of Continental Illinois Stock"
• Statement No. 63:  "National Branching"
• Statement No. 62:  "Congressional Intercession with the Financial Regulatory Agencies"
• Statement No. 61:  "Limiting Taxpayer Loss Exposure in Government-Sponsored Credit Enterprises"
• Statement No. 60:  "RTC Property Disposition Policies"
• Statement No. 59:  "Condition of the Bank Insurance Fund"
• Statement No. 58:  "Provision of Seller Financing by RTC in Asset Sales"

May 7, 1990

• Statement No. 57:  "Proposals to Consolidate the SEC and CFTC"
• Statement No. 56:  "The Elimination of Restrictions on Bank Securities Activities and Affiliations"
• Statement No. 55:  "RTC Thrift Resolution Policies"

February 26, 1990

• Statement No. 54:  "The Failure of the Treasury's Study of the Federal Deposit Insurance System to Focus on Identifying and Correcting Defects in Government Incentives"
• Statement No. 53:  "Subsidized Federal Reserve Assistance"
• Statement No. 52:  "The FDIC's Proposed Regulation on Purchased Mortgage Servicing Rights"

December 4, 1989

• Statement No. 51:  "Proposals to Curb Stock Market Volatility"
• Statement No. 50:  "Federal Reserve Board Proposed Transition Capital Standards for Member Banks"
• Statement No. 49:  "Latin American Debt"
• Statement No. 48:  "The Activities of the Resolution Trust Corporation"

September 18, 1989

• Statement No. 47:  "Congressional Mandated Accounting for Junk Bond Sales"
• Statement No. 46:  "Proposals to Modify Loan Loss Reserves for Third World Debt"
• Statement No. 45:  "Federal Reserve Proposals to Modify the Payments System Risk Reduction Program"
• Statement No. 44:  "The Comptroller of the Currency's Proposal for a Minimum Bank Leverage Ratio"

May 15, 1989

• Statement No. 43:  "The Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery, and Enforcement Act of 1989"
• Statement No. 42:  "The On-Budget Status of Expenditures to Resolve Thrift Insolvencies"

February 13, 1989

• 41 - An Outline of a Program for Deposit Insurance and Regulatory Reform (Revision of No.38)
• Statement No. 40: "Risk-Based Capital and Early Intervention Proposal of Federal Home Loan Bank Board"
• Statement No. 39: "The Administration's Plan to Resolve the Thrift Crisis"

December 5, 1988

• Statement No. 38: "An Outline of a Program for Deposit Insurance Reform"
• Statement No. 37: "Assessing FDIC Premiums Against U.S. Banks' Unsubordinated Debt and Deposits in Foreign Branch Offices"
• Statement No. 36: "The Need to Estimate the True Economic Condition of the FDIC"

September 25, 1988

• Statement No. 35: "The Need to Make FSLIC and FDIC Assistance Deals Accountable"
• Statement No. 34: "The FSLIC's Handling of Failed Thrifts"

May 16, 1988

• Statement No. 33: "Policy Responses to the Stock Market Crash"
• Statement No. 32: "Proposed FDIC Policy Statements Encouraging Independent Outside Audits of Banks"

February 8, 1988

• Statement No. 31: "The FDIC's New Policy on 'Whole Bank' Takeovers"
• Statement No. 30: "Disclosure by Financial Institutions of Financial Assets and Liabilities"
• Statement No. 29: "Regulatory Proposal for Risk-Related Capital Standards"
• Statement No. 28: "The Southwest Plan for Ailing Thrift Institutions"
• Statement No. 27: "Disposal of FDIC Equity Interests in Assisted Banks"
• Statement No. 26: "Studies of the Stock Market Crash"
• Statement No. 25: "The Moratorium on Bank Securities Activities"

November 13, 1987

• Statement No. 24: "The Federal Reserve Board's Request for Comment on the Acquisition of Healthy Thrift Institutions by Bank Holding Companies"
• Statement No. 23: "The Brady Commission and Recent Market Events"
• Statement No. 22: "FSLIC Handling of Insolvent Thrift Institutions"
• Statement No. 21: "International Debt"

September 14, 1987

• Statement No. 20: "Unnecessary Costs of FSLIC Recapitalization Program"

May 18, 1987

• Statement No. 19: "Supplementary Statement: Regulatory Proposals for Risk-Related Capital Standards"
• Statement No. 18: "Regulatory Proposals for Risk-Related Capital Standards" (Original from February 9, 1987--Revised May 18, 1987)
• Statement No. 17: "The Federal Reserve Board's 'Source of Strength' Policy"

February 9, 1987

• Statement No. 16: "FSLIC Recapitalization"

December 1, 1986

• 15 - Proper Financing of Private Party Securities Fully Guaranteed by the Federal Government

November 17, 1986

• Statement No. 14: "Policies Toward Troubled Depository Institutions"
• Statement No. 13: "Current Bank Holding Company Applications for Increased Securities Activities"
• Statement No. 12: "Conversion of S&Ls from FSLIC to FDIC Insurance Coverage"
• Statement No. 11: "Federal Regulation of Activities of State Chartered Financial Institutions"

August 5, 1986

• Statement No. 10: "Federal Home Loan Bank Board (FHLBB) Proposed Rules on Regulatory Capital and Nationwide Lending by Insured Savings and Loan Associations"

June 9, 1986

• Statement No. 9: "Proposal to Facilitate the Interstate Takeover of Failing Depository Institutions"
• Statement No. 8: "Recapitalizing FSLIC and Zombie S&L's"
• Statement No. 7: "Proposals for Capital Forbearance Policy for Agricultural and Energy Banks"
• Statement No. 6: "Proposals for Risk-Related Capital Guidelines"
• Statement No. 5: "Disclosure by Regulated Financial Institutions"
• Statement No. 4: "Disclosure of Supervisory Actions and Examiner's Ratings"

February 14, 1986

• Statement No. 3: "The Federal Reserve Ruling on Junk Bonds"
• Statement No. 2: "Aid to Failing Banks"
• Statement No. 1: "The Baker Plan and LDC Lending"