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U.S. HOUSE FINANCIAL SERVICES COMMITTEE HOLDS HEARING AT STATE HOUSE: The U.S. House’s Financial Services Committee holds a hearing Monday morning in Boston on the lack of available credit for small and mid-size businesses in Massachusetts. The committee is chaired by Congressman Barney Frank. Congressmen Michael Capuano and Stephen Lynch also plan to attend, according to Frank’s office. The hearing will consist of two panels, with Frank’s stateside counterpart, Rep. Peter Koutoujian (D-Waltham), participating in the first one. Others testifying include Eric Rosengren, president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston; Sandra Thompson, director of the division of supervision and consumer protection at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC); Toney Bland, deputy comptroller of the Northeast District in the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency; Michael Finn, Northeast regional director for the Office of Thrift Supervision; and Steven Antonakes, commissioner of banks in Massachusetts. The second panel will consist of Edwin Shea, Central Massachusetts market president for Bank of America; Robert Baker, president of the Smaller Business Association of New England; Perry Pelos, executive vice president of Wells Fargo Commercial Banking; David Slutz, president and CEO of Precix; Christopher Oddleifson, president and CEO of the Rockland Trust Company and vice chairman of the Massachusetts Bankers Association; Iris Mitropoulis, president of Ventura Industries LLC; Barry Sloane, president and CEO of Century Bank; and Scott Geller of JP Morgan, Chase and Co. (Monday, 10 am, Gardner Auditoriuma SECOND HEARING TAKES PLACE ON THIS TAPE..JT HEALTH CARE FINANCE COMMITTEE MARCH 26 2009HEALTH CARE FINANCING COMMITTEE: Chaired by Sen. Richard Moore (D-Uxbridge) and Rep. Harriette Stanley (D-Newburyport), the Committee on Health Care Financing holds a hearing on six bills relating to pandemic flu funding (S 18 and H 108), confidentiality of prescription records (S 19 and H 110), and prohibiting the use of health data in marketing (H 109 and S 17). Pandemic flu bills have been repeatedly touted as a top legislative priority over the last three years, but have faltered in the Legislature. The bills expand the power of the state public health commissioner and local public health boards for dealing with public health emergency actions. The Massachusetts Prescription Reform Coalition will testify on the prescription records bills, which ban anybody, including pharmacists and health providers, from using or selling prescription information records, except for limited purposes, such as pharmacy reimbursement and care management. Under the bill, anybody who violates the provision would be punished by up to four years in prison or a fine of $20,000. The hearing was postponed from earlier this month due to memorial services for former House Speaker George Keverian. (Thursday, 1 pm, B-

• Release Date

  Aug 20, 2009

• Runtime

  01:32:03