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Dodd pitches major financial overhaul
New York City :: NY :: USA | 14 days ago
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Dodd is going to rewrite the financial rules governing the US. Is this the same Dodd who feathered his personal nest while protecting Fannie and Freddie Mac as those institutions created our current financial crisis? Is this he same Dodd who, along with...
Tags: Senate Banking Committee, House of Representatives, Federal Reserve, committee chairman, Senate Finance Committee, banks committee, senate banks, Senate Dems, Christopher Dodd, protect consumers
Dodd circulates bill to strip Fed of regulation powers
Washington :: DC :: USA | 14 days ago
Credibility Dodd (D-Conn.) is circulating a bill that would strip the Federal Reserve and other federal agencies of their powers to regulate the banking industry, instead creating a new agency to do that job. The bill would effect the most sweeping changes to the...
Tags: Senate Banking Committee, senate banks, banks committee, obama administration, financial overhaul, Federal Reserve, committee chairman, Obama, Federal Deposit Insurance Corp, chairman chris
Financial reform fight heats up in House
Washington :: DC :: USA | 20 days ago
Credibility The House was supposed to be the path of least resistance on financial reform. But Financial Services Chairman Barney Frank is fighting off attacks from the right and left on his legislation. He’s priming for a House floor showdown with another Democratic...
Tags: House Financial Services Committee, House Democrats, How House, House of Representatives, White House, Barney Frank, Paul E. Kanjorski, chairman barney, committee chairman, financial institution
White House mulls unwinding "too big to fail" firms
Washington :: DC :: USA | 29 days ago
Credibility The Obama administration would give the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp authority to unwind large firms whose failure could threaten the overall economy. Federal regulators say such "resolution authority" is crucial to ensuring that the market does not...
Tags: credit cards, Senate Banking Committee, committee chairman, Connecticut, Barack Obama, immediate freeze, cards companies, Christopher Dodd, banks committee, senator banks
Dodd seeks crackdown on overdraft fees
Washington :: DC :: USA | about 1 month ago
Credibility Senate Banking Chairman Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) Monday unveiled tough new rules limiting bank overdraft fees, jumping ahead of the Federal Reserve's move to tweak rules on bank fees. “At a time when many can afford it least, American consumers are being...
Tags: overdraft fees, Senate Banking Committee, senator banks, Senate Democrats, banks overdraft, banks committee, Christopher Dodd, committee chairman, introduce legislation, overdraft programs
Arab world befuddled by Obama's Nobel
Oslo :: Norway | about 1 month ago
Credibility Arabs were taken completely aback on Friday morning, when Nobel committee chairman Thorbjoern Jagland announced that United States President Barack Obama was the 2009 recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize for "his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international...
Tags: nobel peace prize, obama, Barack Obama, peace prize, Mr. Obama, The Norwegian Nobel Committee, nobel peace, nobel jury, president barack, committee chairman
Lawmakers discourage online gambling rules
Washington :: DC :: USA | about 1 month ago
Credibility House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank (D-Mass.) and Rep. Pete King (R-N.Y.), along with 17 other lawmakers, urged federal regulators to postpone the effective date of the new rules by one year...In a letter to Federal Reserve Chairman...
Tags: internet gambling, gambling rules, chairman barney, services industry, Treasury Department, committee chairman, House Financial Services Committee, Barney Frank, unreasonable burden, Federal Reserve
Pelosi critical of Baucus bill
Washington :: DC :: USA | 2 months ago
Credibility House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s reaction to the release of the Max Baucus health care reform bill was chilly at best — with a not-so-subtle swipe at the Senate Finance Committee’s stripping away the public option preserved in current House proposals. “As...
Tags: Senate Finance Committee, Max Baucus, health care, senator finance, committee chairman, chairman max, House, Nancy Pelosi, public option, Barack Obama, Washington
Rockefeller rips Baucus bill
Washington :: DC :: USA | 2 months ago
Credibility Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) continued his attack on Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus’ (D-Mont.) health care bill, sharply questioning the chairman’s decision to conduct months of bipartisan talks that failed to win a single Republican backer,...
Tags: Senate Finance Committee, Max Baucus, Senate Democrats, senator finance, care plan, middle class, Barack Obama, tax increase, committee chairman, The Finance Committee, Washington
Bill to Address Republican Fears
Washington :: DC :: USA | 2 months ago
Credibility The chairman of the Senate Finance Committee said Monday that he will propose an overhaul of the nation's health-care system that addresses a host of GOP concerns, including blocking illegal immigrants from gaining access to subsidized insurance, urging...
Tags: Max Baucus, Senate Finance Committee, senator finance, health care, Senate Health Bill, committee chairman, chairman max, illegal immigration, Obama White House, Mr. Baucus, Washington
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