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AP - House and Senate negotiators struggled to meet a self-imposed Thursday deadline to wrap up a massive financial regulation bill, with two major sticking points standing in the way of completing legislation that has been one year in the making.
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Reuters - Republican lawmakers on Tuesday took a more conciliatory tone toward Democratic proposals to crack down on Wall Street as the U.S. Senate delayed debate on a financial reform package until next week.
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Reuters - Desperate U.S. states are preparing to bring the fight for financial help to the Congress as early as Monday after the Senate rejected their pleas for assistance in paying for Medicaid.
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Posted by Yahoo! News: Top Stories on 24 Jun 2010 under News
AP - A key Senate negotiator on sweeping new Wall Street regulations has proposed limits on the ability of banks to carry out high-risk trades or invest in hedge funds and private equity funds.
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Senators Retain Volcker Rule With Hedge-Fund Leeway (Update3) Share Business Exchange Twitter Facebook | Email | Print | A A A By Alison Vekshin June 24 (Bloomberg) -- Senate negotiators offered changes to the regulatory-overhaul bill that would strengthen part of the language banning proprietary trading at U.S. banks while giving them leeway to invest in private-equity and hedge funds. The changes proposed today target language in the Senate bill that implements the Volcker rule, named after...Read Full Story
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Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales: MPAA chairman Christopher Dodd should be fired — Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales had fighting words for Motion Picture Association of America chairman Christopher Dodd, calling the former Senator and current lobbyist out on his recent threats and pronouncing that the MPAA should fire its chief.
"This is altogether a new effect," Christopher Dodd said, comparing the online movement to the Arab Spring. He could not remember seeing "an effort that was moving with this degree of support change this dramatically" in the last four decades, he added....
Democrats in Congress were threatened last week by one of their former colleagues, ex-senator Christopher Dodd, who warned lawmakers they had better support controversial anti-piracy legislation or else risk losing Hollywood’s bounty of campaign contributions.
Salon's Glenn Greenwald didn't let Dodd get away with his latest pro-SOPA statements. In a reasonably lengthy knuckle-rapping blog post about Dodd's troubling history of representing Washington's revolving door problem, the civil liberties lawyer takes the ...
MPAA’s Chris Dodd Calls Piracy Defeat a ‘Watershed Event’ – Hollywood Reporter [Via Sundance 2012]
Monday morning, as part of the Sundance Film Festival’s daily Cinema Café speaker series at the Filmmaker Lodge, New York Times writer David Carr moderated a wide-ranging discussion with MPAA chairman Christopher Dodd, independent producer Christine Vachon and NATO president John Fithian. While many issues relating to exhibition and independent...
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Mexico's congresswoman Ruth Zavaleta,left, president of Mexico's Lower House, talks with U.S. Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., during the second day of a meeting between U.S. and Mexican lawmakers in Monterrey, northeastern Mexico, Sunday, June 8 ...