President Obama signed the Dodd-Frank financial reform law in July 2010, hailing it as an overhaul to prevent the kind of crisis that hit the world ...
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) announced her opposition to a set of bills easing derivatives requirements that garnered heavy bipartisan support in ...
On Thursday, bank-basher Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) slammed several bills headed for the House floor that would severely weaken Wall Street ...
A bill designed to tie the hands of a key Wall Street regulator is headed for a vote in the House this week. The SEC Regulatory Accountability Act, ...
In early 2010, during the debate over the construction of the financial reform bill that would become Dodd-Frank, Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) ...
The Senate Agriculture Committee is set to mark up its bill a day before its House counterpart follows suit.
About midway through his new book, Act of Congress, our colleague Bob Kaiser recalls German statesman Otto von Bismarck’s observation: ...
● In July 2010, nearly two years after the 2008 financial crisis exposed the vulnerability of the world’s economic system, Congress passed sweeping ...
It looks like one of the primary causes of the 2007 financial crash may be here to stay. Before the crisis, the credit-rating agencies (such as ...
The front-page excerpt from Robert G. Kaiser’s book on Congress [“The secret handshake that foiled the banking lobby,” May 6] told how then-Rep.
