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A panel began today, the Congress in drafting legislation aimed at strengthening the banking sector and the rapid deterioration of the programme, insurance deposits.

By a vote of 34 against 1, the House Banking Committee’s subcommittee on Financial Institutions senior management, surveillance and insurance approved a measure to increase by $ 30 billion of $ 5 billion of the authority of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation loan fund State.

There have also increased the regulation of state banks and at the end of 1995 by the current “too big doomed” policy of bailing out depositors in major banks, whatever the size of their accounts. The Action Committee has come after months of discussions and hearings on Capitol Hill about the fate of banks.

The group will not be until next week, major changes in the Bush administration, including industrial property on banks and removing obstacles to the intergovernmental Banking.

The action today is the first step on a procedural error compromise reached last week to members of the Committee and the Bush administration. It is a consideration from the committee chairman of the action and the department of treasury proposal.

Until the compromise, the prospects for the management accountant has been thin. Officials fear that members of Congress would only health insurance, problems, even without considering far-reaching restructuring of the industry.

The current bill is now sitting at the banking committee, where it could be reviewed until next month. If members of the subcommittee are able to agree on a broader bill, it is now for action. Otherwise, strengthening Bill assumes that the stick at home later this summer.

While the action today was at the sub-committee, it is nevertheless important because 36 of the 52 banks, members of the Committee on the sub-committee. It was adopted with the support of the chairman of the Banking Committee, representatives of Henry B. Gonzalez of Texas, and financial institutions subcommittee, representatives of Frank Annunzio of Illinois, were invited to quickly obtain a preliminary review of the current bank by the Insurance Fund General Accounting Office. Two amendments rejected

The office of accountants, the investigative arm of Congress, concluded that the health insurance fund was near insolvency and that it may be necessary, a costly taxpayer bailout Congress is not so quickly. The current bill allows the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Fund for cash flow by borrowing to be reimbursed by the banking sector.

The bill approved today the State would strengthen supervision on banks and supervisory authorities can seize, if these institutions are weak, but before they are insolvent.

Through 25 to 10, members of the subcommittee is rejected, that the two amendments would be the effects of higher insurance premiums for foreign banks with deposits. Technically, they are not insured, but almost always by the regulatory authorities. The proposed amendments would click money from major banks Centre the hardest.

The Sub-Committee was also rejected an amendment by voice vote by representatives Gerald D. Kleczka, Democrat of Wisconsin, which would have received an assessment of $ 15 billion on banks over two years for health insurance. The evaluation was adopted by the General Accounting Office.

At the end of the day, Mr. Kleczka was the only member of the Committee to vote against the bill, after recalling the fate that the banking sector would ultimately resemble that of savings and loan associations, alleging case which is currently subject to a cost hundreds of billions of dollars. Another view bailout

“This is 1 lap in the direction of a taxpayer bailout,” said Kleczka. “If you think assessments, the banks pay cash loans, you are quite wrong.

But other committee members disagreed and said that a special assessment on banks would have more harm than good largest retail banks to insolvency.