The Euro area equivalent of the NBER, the Centre for Economic Policy Research, also has a business cycle dating committee (full disclosure, I have recently joined this committee).

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That he may have to amend his ethics, his financial disclosure reports if the Senate Ethics Committee tells him to.

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Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), who as chairman of the Senate Finance Committee had pushed the shelter disclosure provision in 2004.

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But Chung did answer questions under a "gentleman's agreement" under which the House Government Reform and Oversight Committee agreed there would be no public disclosure of what he said.

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Recent major issues resolved by the Special Committee on Governance of the NYSE concern disclosure of executive and director compensation, NYSE officer service on listed company boards and the influence of securities industry directors who serve on the 27-person NYSE board.

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Lee's undoing came about not from conclusive evidence of his spying but from disclosure of the case late last year to Representative Christopher Cox's committee investigating allegations of Chinese spying.

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This disclosure comes at a time when Congress is taking the final steps in a conference committee to reconcile House and Senate versions of the Iran Refined Petroleum Sanctions Act (IRSPA).

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