Sen. Phil Gramm, chairman of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, has formally filed the Committee's Financial Services Modernization Act of 1999. The bill, now designated S. 900, was passed March 4 by the Banking Committee.

Information about the bill, including news releases, correspondence from Federal reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, and witnesses' statements from the committee's four hearings on the bill are available at the committee's website:

Committee Action: See Press Releases, 106th Congress, March 4

• Committee approves Financial Services Modernization Act of 1999

Hearings: See Hearings section, 106th Congress, February

• Testimony from consumer groups. Feb. 25, 1999
• Testimony from government witnesses: Feb. 25, 1999
• Testimony from government witnesses: Robert E. Rubin, Secretary of the Treasury and John D. Hawke, Jr., Comptroller of the Currency. Feb. 24, 1999
• Testimony on Financial Services Legislation. Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan. Feb. 23, 1999.

Amendments: See Documents, committee documents online, amendments

• Seven amendments to the Financial Services Bill

Statements, Correspondence: See Press Releases, and From The Chairman

• Chairman Alan Greenspan's Letter to Chairman Phil Gramm Regarding Significant Expansion of CRA in House Banking Legislation
• Chairman Gramm's Letter to President Clinton Regarding CRA. Feb 1, 1999

Press Releases: See Press Releases, 106th Congress, March and February
03/03/99 - Statement of Chairman Gramm on Impending Markup of Financial Services
03/01/99 - Summary of Financial Services Modernization Act of 1999, pre mark-up
02/25/99 - Statement of Chairman Gramm on Financial Services Modernization
02/24/99 - Gramm Announces Additional Witnesses Scheduled to Testify on Financial Services
02/19/99 - Chairman Gramm Announces Witnesses for Legislative Hearings on Financial Services