Committee on Health

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  Sen. Harkin to DOL: Hold Retirement Plan Advisors to Strict Fiduciary Rules

  By Melanie Waddell, AdvisorOne  |  February 7, 2011

  Sen.Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, chairman of the Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, is urging the DOL to hold retirement plan advisors to the highest fiduciary standards.

• New Legislation May Lower Student Loan Interest Rates

  By Kara P. Stapleton  |  February 9, 2007

  The College Student Relief Act of 2007 (HR 5), introduced by Rep. George Miller (D-California) with 211 cosponsors, would modify the Higher Education Act of 1965 by cutting in half the fixed interest rates on need-based Stafford loans for undergraduates over a five-year period. The bill passed the House on...

• NASAA Opposes ERISA Rules Change

  By Staff Writer  |  May 2, 2006

  WASHINGTON (HedgeWorld.com)--With different versions of a bill to reform pensions having passed in the House and the Senate, members from both sides are meeting in a conference committee to hash out their differences. It is in the negotiations of that committee that the North American Securities Administrators Association Inc. hopes...