Video: Yesterday's House Financial Services Committee Hearing on FHA Reform.

I have posted to the Internet Archive a video HERE of the House Financial Services Subcommittee hearing held on FHA Reform on Thursday March 11, 2010.

Website for the hearing, with prepared written testimony and draft legislation is HERE.

Video is available for viewing on line OR it can be downloaded in a several different formats, including formats that work with IPOD/Iphone etc. (Video file sizes are large so you will need a broadband connection if you want to download files).

Originally created and posted on the Oregon Housing Blog.

Resources: Yesterday's Senate Banking Hearing on Section 202 and 811 Legislation.

I consolidated all written testimony from the Senate Banking Subcommittee hearing held on October 29th. into a single PDF file HERE.

You can view the hearing on line HERE.

Govtrac.us website for the legislation is HERE; Thomas website for S.118 is HERE.

Originally created and posted on the Oregon Housing Blog.

Video: House Financial Services Hearing on Mortgage Modifications.

Hearing page (yesterday) is HERE.

Link to Flash C-SPAN Video is HERE.

(Note very cool C-SPAN video feature: You may search within video for specific term(s). So, for example, the search HERE will show clickable links to segments of video that contains term FHA).

IPOD AUDIO: 12/06/07 House Financial Services Hearing on Foreclosure Prevention.

HERE is MP3 audio of House Financial Services Committee held Thursday 12/06/07 with the subject Loan Modification and Foreclosure Prevention. [It was a long hearing, file is 167 MB in size].

Website for this hearing, with individual PDF's with the written testimony of three panels of witnesses, is HERE.

Friday Foreclosure Prevention Update House Hearing Scheduled.

Details and (eventually) witness statements available at House Financial Services Committee hearing website HERE.

Exclusive IPOD Audio: House Hearing, Improving Mortgage Markets.

The Wednesday House Financial Services Committee hearing on the subject must have been one of the longest housing related hearings evah, lasting 8 1/2 hours.

I have loaded the first 8 hours of the hearing into a single .MP3 file HERE (and when I chance I will see if I can load the remaining half hour). Downloading caution:This file is 337 MB's in size, so plan on attending a meeting or get lunch while this downloads.

Subprime Legislation Introduced Before House Hearing on Wednesday.

Chair Barney Frank is one of the sponsors of a currently unnumbered piece of legislation that seems likely to be introduced in the House shortly, prior to a Wednesday morning hearing on Legislative Reforms of Mortgage Practices. Text of the draft bill can be found HERE.

A section by section analysis of the bill can be found HERE.

Written testimony for the Wednesday hearing should be posted by the day of the hearing HERE.

MP3 Audio from Late Payments Hearing: Chris Shays to HUD Chief Financial Officer,“You Have Made a Fool of Yourself”.

[Time Correction]

One of the reasons I take the time to create .MP3 audio files from congressional hearings is that they provide a unique way of hearing the personal interaction between committee members and those testifying, and between the members themselves. (To avoid wasting time, I try to fit the listening into my existing daily routine. I listen to the MP3 files on my IPOD when I am out getting my daily exercise, or while driving in the car).

The latest hearing on HUD late rental assistance payments provides a good example of the value added by the .MP3 files. After minutes of exasperating and evasive testimony from HUD’s Chief Financial Officer the long serving Connecticut Representative Chris Shay (R) reaches a boiling point telling the CFO [at 1:12:05] “ You have made a fool of yourself”.

Listening to the testimony one also learns that the CFO relied on a verbal legal opinion forbidding use of prior year funds to make rental payments, even with an existing rental assistance contract in place. A representative from the HUD Office of Legal Counsel testified that they had not been asked to write a legal opinion, and the CFO testified that it might taken until the end of the year to have such a legal opinion written and available to Congress.

The hearing .MP3 audio is HERE.

IPOD Video and Audio, Foreclosure Hearing--Frank, Bernanke, and Jackson.

HERE is a 15 minute (50+ MB) IPOD VIDEO download of the remarks of House Financial Services Director Barney Frank, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, and HUD Secretary Jackson at yesterdays Sept 20 th. House Financial Services Committee hearing housing foreclosures. (I can confirm that this plays successfully on my video IPOD).

For those who can't view IPOD video, HERE's a Windows Media VIDEO Version (75+ MB).

And for those of you who only want audio, HERE's a MP3 AUDIO version (22+ MB).