US President Barack Obama urged lawmakers to resist pressure to weaken a financial reform bill and called again for an independent consumer watchdog to help prevent future financial crises

The biggest reform to US financial regulation since the 1930s became law after President Barack Obama signed the Dodd-Frank Act at a ceremony in Washington

President Barack Obama's efforts to win final approval of a historic financial regulatory reform bill looked more complicated on Saturday after a Republican senator threatened to oppose it

Barack Obama, US president, is set to push for financial regulatory reform, including some of its more controversial elements, as Republican opposition to the bill appears to be softening

The prospects for passage of sweeping financial reform legislation have improved recently as negotiations over the bill enter the final stretch, senior officials in the Obama administration said

Barack Obama, president, met Republican leaders to discuss financial regulatory reform but the meeting did nothing to improve the tone of an increasingly bitter debate

Anyone wondering why President Barack Obama has only now decided to push for immigration reform should look at the poll numbers. Mr Obama, who will give a speech on Thursday will call on Congress to pass a bill giving the country's 11m illegal immigrants a "pathway to citizenship"

Advocates of healthcare reform drew fresh hope from a new Democratic bill on Capitol Hill at the end of a week in which Barack Obama's plans suffered heavy dilution because of growing concern over rising budget deficits

The US senator leading the effort to pass a financial reform bill said he has reached an impasse with his Republican counterpart and will begin drafting new legislation to be considered later this month

Barack Hussein Obama signed the ill-named Financial 'Reform' bill today, a massive tax increase and socialist piece of legislation Zero had the nerve to sign in the Ronald Reagan Building. Increasingly, we face government by diktat at the expense of our freedom, and my latest at American Thinker takes this head on, using ObamaCare and th efinancial 'reform' bill as prime exampl...