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The House of Lombard was a banking family in medieval London, England.
The House of Medici or Famiglia de ' Medici ( ; ) was a political dynasty, banking family and later royal house that first began to gather prominence under Cosimo de ' Medici in the Republic of Florence during the late 14th century.
Clarke banking house, Sump Memorial Library, City Hall, Portal One-Room School House, Papillion Municipal Building ( Sarpy County Courthouse until 1970 ), and the John Sutter House.
Glass had been the House sponsor of the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 ( the Glass-Owen Act ) and considered himself “ the father of the Federal Reserve System .” The various versions of his Glass bill consistently sought to ( 1 ) expand branch banking and bring more banks and activities under Federal Reserve supervision and ( 2 ) separate ( or regulate the mix of ) commercial and investment banking.
In the House of Representatives, Representative Steagall opposed even the revised Glass bill with its limited permission for branch banking.
After several states had closed their banks in what became the banking crisis of 1933, Hoover issued a February 20, 1933, plea to the House of Representatives to pass the Glass bill as the “ first constructive step to remedy the prime weakness of our whole economic life .” On March 4, 1933, however, the lame duck session of the 72nd Congress adjourned without either the Glass bill or the House deposit insurance bill becoming law.
Separately, the General Accounting Office ( GAO ) submitted to a House subcommittee a report reviewing the benefits and risks of “ Glass-Steagall repeal .” The report recommended a “ phased approach ” using a “ holding company organizational structure ” if Congress chose “ repeal .” Noting Glass-Steagall had “ already been eroded and the erosion is likely to continue in the future ,” the GAO explained “ coming to grips with the Glass-Steagall repeal question represents an opportunity to systematically and rationally address changes in the regulatory and legal structure that are needed to better address the realities of the marketplace .” The GAO warned that Congress ’ s failure to act was “ potentially dangerous ” in permitting a “ continuation of the uneven integration of commercial and investment banking activities .”
With the commercial ( J. P. Morgan & Co .) and investment ( Morgan Stanley ) banking arms of the old “ House of Morgan ” both underwriting corporate bonds and stocks, Wolfgang Reinicke concluded the Federal Reserve Board order meant both firms now competed in “ a single financial market offering both commercial and investment banking products ,” which “ Glass-Steagall sought to rule out .” Reinicke described this as “ de facto repeal of Glass-Steagall .”
In reaction to “ market developments ” and regulatory and judicial decisions that had “ homogenized ” commercial and investment banking, Representative Edward J. Markey ( D-MA ) had written a 1990 article arguing “ Congress must amend Glass-Steagall .” As chairman of a subcommittee of the House Commerce and Energy Committee, Markey had joined with Committee Chairman Dingell in opposing the 1988 Proxmire Financial Modernization Act.
The banking industry strongly opposed the bill in that form, and the House rejected it.
Helen Garten argued that bank regulation became dominated by “ consumer ” issues, which produced “ a largely unregulated, sophisticated wholesale market and a highly regulated, retail consumer market .” In the 1980s Representative Fernand St. Germain ( D-RI ), as chairman of the House Banking Committee, sought to tie any Glass-Steagall reform to requirements for free or reduced cost banking services for the elderly and poor.
The “ compromise bill ” the House Republican leadership sought to bring to a vote in March 1998, was opposed by the banking industry as favoring the securities and insurance industries.
The House Republican leadership withdrew the bill in response to the banking industry opposition, but vowed to bring it back when Congress returned from recess.
Peckover House, with its fine walled garden, was built for the Quaker banking family in 1722 and now owned by the National Trust.
The Rothschild family (,,, ), known as the House of Rothschild, or more simply as the Rothschilds, is a European banking dynasty, of German-Jewish origin, that established European banking and finance houses starting in the late 18th century.
Other international banking units, such as International Westminster Bank's London Branch and the Nostro Reconciliations Department remained at their locations ( at 41 Threadneedle Street and Park House, Finsbury Square, respectively ) due to insufficient space in the tower.
During the campaign, Grams benefited from high name recognition in the district — from years as news anchor at KMSP-TV -- and Sikorski's involvement in the House banking scandal.
* Automated Clearing House, an electronic banking network often used for direct deposit and electronic bill payment
In 1992, Lincoln defeated Alexander ( who had become a major figure in the House banking scandal ) in the Democratic primary, by a margin of 61 to 39 percent.
The House banking scandal broke in early 1992, when it was revealed that the United States House of Representatives allowed members to overdraw their House checking accounts without risk of being penalized by the House bank ( actually a clearinghouse ).

House and scandal
* 1974 – Watergate Scandal: President Richard Nixon announces the release of edited transcripts of White House tape recordings relating to the scandal.
* 1998 – Lewinsky scandal: US President Bill Clinton admits in taped testimony that he had an " improper physical relationship " with White House intern Monica Lewinsky.
Ibsen wrote A Doll's House at the point when Laura Kieler had been committed to the asylum, and the fate of this friend of the family shook him deeply, perhaps also because Laura had asked him to intervene at a crucial point in the scandal, which he did not feel able or willing to do.
Later, he was impeached for perjury and obstruction of justice in a scandal involving a White House intern, but was acquitted by the U. S. Senate and served his complete term of office.
In a lame-duck session of Congress after the 1998 elections, the House voted to impeach Clinton, based on the results of the Lewinsky scandal.
* 1975 – Watergate scandal: Former United States Attorney General John N. Mitchell and former White House aides H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman are sentenced to prison.
* 1998 – Lewinsky scandal: On American television, U. S. President Bill Clinton denies having had " sexual relations " with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky.
* 1972 – Watergate scandal: five White House operatives are arrested for burgling the offices of the Democratic National Committee, in an attempt by some members of the Republican party to illegally wiretap the opposition.
* 1974 – Watergate scandal: the United States Supreme Court unanimously ruled that President Richard Nixon did not have the authority to withhold subpoenaed White House tapes and they order him to surrender the tapes to the Watergate special prosecutor.
Another scandal was " Cash for Questions ", in which first Graham Riddick, and David Tredinnick accepted money to ask questions in the House of Commons in a newspaper " sting ", and later Tim Smith and Neil Hamilton were found to have received money from Mohamed Al Fayed, also to ask questions in the House.
* 1974 – Watergate scandal: U. S. President Richard Nixon releases subpoenaed White House recordings after being ordered to do so by the Supreme Court of the United States.
* 1974 – Watergate scandal: the House of Representatives Judiciary Committee votes 27 to 11 to recommend the first article of impeachment ( for obstruction of justice ) against President Richard Nixon.
* 1973 – Watergate scandal: former White House aide Alexander Butterfield informs the United States Senate that President Richard Nixon had secretly recorded potentially incriminating conversations.
As Gerald is the Duke of Denver, he is tried by the entire House of Lords, as required by the law at that time, to much scandal and the distress of his wife Helen.
* 1998 – Lewinsky scandal: The United States House of Representatives Judiciary Committee begins impeachment hearings against U. S. President Bill Clinton.
In a time when party discipline was not as strong as it is today, once Macdonald's culpability in the scandal became known he could no longer expect to retain the confidence of the House of Commons.
Though the instigators of the deed may actually have been Formosus ' enemies of the House of Spoleto ( notably Guy IV of Spoleto ), who had recovered their authority in Rome at the beginning of 897 by renouncing their broader claims in central Italy, the scandal ended in Stephen's imprisonment and his death by strangling that summer.
* Lewinsky scandal – US president Bill Clinton was caught in a media-frenzied scandal involving inappropriate relations with a White House intern Monica Lewinsky, first announced on 21 January 1998.
** Watergate scandal: Five White House operatives are arrested for burglarizing the offices of the Democratic National Committee.
* February 21 – Watergate scandal: Former United States Attorney General John N. Mitchell, and former White House aides H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman, are sentenced to between 30 months and 8 years in prison.
The White House reportedly saw the Tribune < nowiki >' s </ nowiki > editorial as a loss of a long-time supporter and as a blow to Nixon's hopes to weather the scandal.
Her youngest child is author David Profumo, ( b. 16 October 1955 ) who wrote Bringing the House Down: A Family Memoir ( 2006 ) about the scandal.
Election statistics show that, while the LDP had been able to secure a majority in the twelve House of Representatives elections from May 1958 to February 1990, with only three exceptions ( December 1976, October 1979, and December 1983 ), its share of the popular vote had declined from a high of 57. 8 percent in May 1958 to a low of 41. 8 percent in December 1976, when voters expressed their disgust with the party's involvement in the Lockheed scandal.

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