Senator Dodd's new financial regulation bill is not by itself enough but it is a good starting point: solid reform in the near future is now a realistic prospect
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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
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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
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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
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The US House of Representatives took a step closer to passing a financial regulatory reform bill after lawmakers spent scrutinising a flurry of last-minute amendments
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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
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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
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Chris Dodd, the Senate banking committee chairman, said that he would introduce a financial regulatory reform bill next week in a substantial move forward for one of President Barack Obama's legislative priorities.
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They call it the Ben Nelson rally. When the Democratic senator from Nebraska joined Republicans in delaying a financial reform bill on Monday, he gained some new friends and fought for the interests of an old one – Warren Buffett
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Senate Democrats may be on the brink of passing a sweeping healthcare reform bill, but attention is already starting to turn to the next battle: the negotiations between House and Senate leaders over the final shape of the legislation
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Wall Street has been lobbying hard to neuter some costly aspects of America's financial reform bill. The main planks of reform have survived, so far – but the wide discretion handed to regulators arouses the suspicion that the buck is being passed and that the changes in practice will amount to less than they should, writes Clive Crook
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