Treasury Department officials are refusing to give details of ameeting held yesterday with insurance and banking industryrepresentatives to discuss possible administration support foroptional federal chartering of insurance companies.

Industry participants said the session was courteous and it wassignificant that it had been held, but that it would provide fewsubstantive details of the discussions.

Treasury officials declined to confirm or deny the meeting.“We're not going to get in the business of confirming, denying orcommenting on individual, private meetings,” a spokesman for theagency said.

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