Sentences with phrase «pass financial reform»

Later Wednesday the president is scheduled to speak about the need to pass financial reform at an event in Quincy, Illinois.

Last week Congress passed the Financial Reform Bill with 60 votes.

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The House set the ball in motion recently, passing legislation to repeal and replace key components of financial reform put in place in 2010.

Passing immigration reform validates the U.S. reputation, and role in the world as a safe haven and democratic superpower, and will only serve to attract more human and financial capital in the future.

Sorry to recycle, but with the Comey hearings sucking up all the air, folks may have missed that today the House today passed that fahrblunget bit of chazari known as the Choice Act, which largely repeals Dodd - Frank financial reform (it requires D votes in the Senate, so a much heavier lift over there, thankfully).

The Dodd - Frank financial reform law, passed by Washington in the wake of the financial crisis, does call on the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to clamp down on excessive speculation in futures markets.

A couple of days ago, I participated in the «On Point» radio show about this (sort of) bispartisan effort to significantly rollback the Dodd - Frank financial reform bill that passed back in 2010.

The financial reform bill passed by the House of Representatives brings retail brokers under a fiduciary standard if they supply investment advice.

Didn't the Obama administration tell the public that allowing these Frankenbanks to continue to gamble in derivatives while putting the U.S. economy and taxpayers at risk was going to end under his Dodd - Frank financial reform legislation passed in 2010?

The Volcker rule, finalized three years after the Dodd - Frank financial reform law passed in the wake of the 2007 - 2009 financial crisis, restricts U.S. banks from making certain kinds of speculative transactions on their own account and from investing in hedge funds.

Quick to say they found the root - cause of the crisis — a banking system thats massive financial leverage and global interconnectedness created profound systemic risks to our modern economy — they swiftly passed Dodd Frank, a comprehensive regulatory reform package dressed up as the antidote to our sick financial system.

But under the Dodd - Frank financial reform legislation that was passed in 2010, the SEC was forced to create one.

The gains in Asian stocks were in line with rallies in the global financial market, with investors showing optimism about the global economic recovery and a prospect that the US could pass the much discussed tax reform.

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Passed Wall Street Reform: Signed the Dodd - Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (2010) to re-regulate the financial sector after its practices caused the Great Recession.

Early in the debate, when pressed by the Vermont senator on her ties to Wall Street, Mrs Clinton noted that Mr Obama had taken donations from the financial industry and still passed comprehensive reform.

«The Wall Street reform bill that Congressman Murphy helped pass last week is going to end taxpayer funded bailouts and prevent another financial crash like the one that just cost us eight million American jobs,» said Murphy's campaign spokesman Mitch Wallace.

Just two days after New York legislators passed first - in - the - nation gun law reforms in response to the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings, the state's chief financial officer says pension fund investments in firearm companies have been frozen.

He has also voted to pass legislation increasing oversight over the Troubled Asset Relief Program, limiting executive pay, reforming sub-prime mortgage markets and regulating the financial industry.

During her press conference outside PS 13, Ms. Malliotakis unveiled her Albany reform agenda, including: Requiring a two - thirds legislative majority to pass new taxes and fees; capping the rise in spending at the rate of inflation or 2 percent, whichever is less; requiring legislators to disclose outside sources of income; requiring public authorities like the MTA to undergo an independent financial audit, and calling for a constitutional convention to address items that have bedeviled the state recently, such as appointing a lieutenant governor and breaking a Senate tie.

Rep. Maurice Hinchey lauded the financial regulatory reform bill that passed the House, but said he's uncertain about its fate in the Senate.

If Senate Democrats want to run hard against Klein, they could get some financial help (ironically, maybe) from an independent expenditure from the Jonathan Soros - backed PAC that has threatened to spend against anyone who doesn't pass campaign finance reform.

Washington (CNNMoney.com)- Two key senators announced announced their support for the Wall Street reform bill Monday, placing Senate Democrats days away from winning the final vote to passing the most sweeping set of changes to the financial system in decades.

With additional financial support from the Koch Brother's Americans for Prosperity StudentsFirst, the Walton Family Foundation and other major corporate education reform players, the amendment passed with proponents outspending the opposition by about ten - to - one.

After NADA lobbying, dealers won exemption from increased government regulation called for in the Dodd - Frank Financial Reform Act passed after the financial meltdownFinancial Reform Act passed after the financial meltdownfinancial meltdown of 2008.

A proposed amendment by U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill offering enhanced consumer protection for reverse mortgages failed to make the version of the financial reform bill that passed the Senate last week.

Third, he wanted to take the fight straight to the megabanks on too - big - to - fail, making Wall street defend against structural reforms it opposed, at least to increase the chance that other provisions opposed by the banks, like the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, would pass.

In fact, the ratio of executive pay to worker salaries must be reported in the proxy statements of publicly traded corporations according to reform legislation passed by Congress in 2010 in the wake of the financial crisis.

Tucked into the financial reform bill that passed this week is a provision many sustainable electronics advocates will be happy about.

And with the lack of Republican support for the stimulus bill, the relatively small (partisan) margin by which the House passed Waxman - Markey, the then - upcoming challenges of health care and financial regulatory reform dominating the legislative calendar, and concerns voiced about climate legislation by moderate Senate Democrats, success in the Senate was always a long - shot.

[41] As far as insurance in the United Kingdom, the Financial Services Authority took over insurance regulation from the General Insurance Standards Council in 2005; [42] laws passed include the Insurance Companies Act 1973 and another in 1982, [43] and reforms to warranty and other aspects under discussion as of 2012 [update].

The House Financial Services Committee has passed seven bills, which reauthorize and reform NFIP.

Less than one year after Hurricane Katrina — and in the midst of severe flooding in sections of the Northeast — the U.S. House of Representatives has passed federal flood insurance reforms that the NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS ® says could help protect millions of home owners from financial devastation should another catastrophic storm hit.

The bank reform Congress passed in 1999 — enabling financial institutions to expand their product offerings — reaffirmed that banks couldn't own or operate commercial companies.

The Senate approved a bill last week that will roll back some aspects of the Dodd - Frank banking reform bill, which was passed in 2010 after the financial crisis.

The House has already passed its version of banking reform, known as The Financial Choice Act.

The U.S. House of Representatives has passed federal flood insurance reforms that the NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS ® says could help protect millions of home owners from financial devastation should another catastrophic storm hit.