Three reasons Congress is broken
Why is Congress so helpless and so hopeless? We’ve heard all the fashionable explanations: partisan gridlock; special interests and the impact of ...
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Robert Kaiser on Dodd-Frank: 'This example of Congress working also illuminated why it works so rarely.'
Almost three years ago, the Dodd-Frank Act was enacted, a sweeping piece of legislation aimed at overhauling regulation of the financial system.
Obama taps Senate staff for SEC
President Obama pulled from the ranks of the Senate Banking Committee to fill seats at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) with a pair of ...
Bank’s Lobbyists Help in Drafting Financial Bills
Citigroup’s ideas were reflected in more than 70 lines of one 85-line bill.
Gomez Stands By Markey ‘Pond Scum’ Remarks
BOSTON — Republican U.S. Senate candidate Gabriel Gomez is standing by controversial remarks he made about his Democratic rival, U.S. Rep.
Legislators Voting YES on Derivatives Deregulation Bill Receive 2.6 Times More Money From Top Banks
Earlier this month the House Financial Services Committee approved six bills that would roll back pieces of the Dodd-Frank Act designed to improve ...
Is the end of quantitative easing near?
Federal Reserve's Ben Bernanke is cautiously optimistic.
Democrats may be even worse than Republicans at regulating Wall Street
Who needs Republicans when Wall Street has the Democrats? With the help of congressional Democrats, the Street is rolling back financial reforms ...
‘Act of Congress: How America’s Essential Institution Works, and How It Doesn’t’ by Robert G. Kaiser
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 ...
Meet The People Who Are Subverting Wall Street Reform
Commodity Futures Trading Commissioner Mark Wetjen Three years after Congress passed sweeping reforms of Wall Street, the industry has successfully ...