Links to witness testimony at a House Banking Committee hearing on the First Accounts Act of 2000, which would start a program promoting access to financial services, particularly for low- and moderate-income people

Source: U.S. House of Representatives
Subject: HR 4490
Opening statement by Chairman James A. Leach June 27, 2000 Panel 1

• Gary Gensler, Department of the Treasury's Under Secretary for Domestic Finance

Panel 2

• Michael Stegman , MacRae Distinguished Professor of Public Policy and Business, chairman of the public policy curriculum, and director of the Center for Community Capitalism in the Kenan-Flagler Business School's Frank Hawkins Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill

• Edmund Mierzwinski, consumer program director, U.S. PIRG

• Daniel L. Krieger, chairman, president and CEO, First National Bank, Ames, Iowa, on behalf of American Bankers Association

• Joseph S. Bracewell, president and CEO, Century National Bank, Washington, DC, on behalf of Independent Community Bankers of America  (Attachment -- Adobe Acrobat file)