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Bills That Would Gut Wall Street Reform Overwhelmingly Pass House Committee
http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/05/derivatives-bill-house-financial-services-committee-passErika Eichelberger May 8, 2013
On Tuesday, three bills that would gut the 2010 Dodd-Frank Wall Street reform bill passed the House Financial Services Committee (HFSC) in decisive fashion, with just six members of the 61-member committee voting against all of them.
The three bills passed over serious objections from the Obama administration. On Monday, Treasury Secretary Jack Lew wrote a letter to Rep. Jeb Hensarling (R-Texas), the chairman of the committee, urging "members to oppose these bills and others like [them] that would weaken the important regulatory changes that Wall Street Reform has made to the derivatives market." A year ago, former Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner made a similar statement against a slate of nearly identical bills.
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Financial reform advocates say that the three bills would do serious damage to parts of Dodd-Frank that deal with derivatives, which are financial products with values based on underlying numbers, like crop prices or interest rates.[/font]
Only six of the 28 Democrats on the committee voted against all three of the billsReps. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), the senior Democratic member of the committee; Nydia Velázquez (D-N.Y.); Mike Capuano (D-Mass.); Stephen Lynch (D-Mass.); Al Green (D-Tex.); and Keith Ellison (D-Minn.). Another six Democrats voted against some of the bills. Sixteen Dems voted in favor of all three bills. Thirty-one of the 33 Republicans on the committee voted for all the bills; Reps. Steve Pearce (R-N.M.) and Lynn Westmoreland (R-Ga.) abstained on two of the bills.
House Financial Services Committee members received some $14.8 million in contributions from the financial services and banking sectors during the last election cycle.
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Bills That Would Gut Wall Street Reform Overwhelmingly Pass House Committee (Original Post)
Bill USA
May 2013
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LonePirate
(13,419 posts)1. Shameful Democrats! Also, why are there 61 seats on this committee? That is almost 1/7 of the House.
Turbineguy
(37,324 posts)2. Because there are still
a few middle class people just itching to have the rest of their savings and retirement looted.
Laelth
(32,017 posts)3. k&r for exposure. n/t
-Laelth
justhanginon
(3,290 posts)4. Just a coincidence
I'm sure that 14.8 million dollars in contributions from the financial community is just a coincidence. Yeaaah, sure!
Bill USA
(6,436 posts)5. that's the cost of "lubrication"