Christopher Dodd

Harvey Weinstein has taken his war with the MPAA over the R Rating given to the Weinstein Company’s documentary, “Bully,” to new heights by enlisting the aid of a real-life high school bully to tease and rough up MPAA chairman Christopher Dodd. MPAA chairman Christopher Dodd can't escape Harvey Weinstein's hired bully outside his Washington, D.C. offices. Since being hired by Weinstein earlier in the week, the 16-year-old bully has tormented Dodd endlessly.  His tactics have included name...Read Full Story

Posted by Yahoo! News: Top Stories on 24 Jun 2010 under News 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. Sphere: Related Content See also . . . Obama’s Impossibly Complex Win"The Senate passed a historic finance reform bill on Thursday night, fulfilling a major goal of the administration...Read Full Story

Posted by Yahoo! News: Top Stories on 20 Apr 2010 under News 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. Sphere: Related Content See also . . . Senate panel seen approving financial reform (Reuters)"Reuters - The new financial reform bill introduced in the Senate will likely be approved at the committee level next week...Read Full Story

Posted by Yahoo! News: Top Stories on 25 Jun 2010 under News 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. Sphere: Related Content See also . . . Senate Dems pave way for financial reform vote (Reuters)"Reuters - Democrats pressed ahead with financial regulation reform in the U.S. Congress on Thursday, rejecting Republican complaints and...Read Full Story

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. Sphere: Related Content See also . . . Dodd: Defending a Senate bill against all comers (AP)"AP - It was near the end of a long day and Sen. Christopher Dodd, in his shirt sleeves with 1,900 pages of proposed financial regulations...Read Full Story

Senators Retain Volcker Rule With Hedge-Fund Leeway (Update3) Share Business ExchangeTwitterFacebook| 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...Read Full Story

A top US senator just back from a five-day visit to Cuba to meet with officials there said he did not believe there was any chance of a prisoner swap between the United States and its communist neighbor.Senate Banking Committee chairman Christopher Dodd made the trip for talks with officials in Havana on how to improve relations between the former Cold War foes, his office said. The countries do not have full diplomatic ties.Dodd, who also chairs the Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee on...Read Full Story

It was near the end of a long day and Sen. Christopher Dodd, in his shirt sleeves with 1,900 pages of proposed financial regulations stacked in front of him, had been scanning the hearing room of the House Financial Services Committee.There were the Republican senators, the House Democrats, the financial sector lobbyists. At the back of the room were two of Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner's top lieutenants.All of them are tugging at Dodd, D-Conn., as a House-Senate conference works to...Read Full Story

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama is expected to renominate Peter Diamond to become a member of the Federal Reserve Board, a White House official said on Friday.The Senate on Thursday returned Diamond's nomination to the White House. That was because at least one Senator objected to waiting until the Senate returns from recess to vote on the nomination, sources said, a parliamentary maneuver suggesting his nomination faces some obstacles ahead.Diamond, an MIT professor and expert...Read Full Story

Senate Republicans Vow to Amend Finance Bill on Floor (Update1) Share Business ExchangeTwitterFacebook| Email | Print | A A A By Alison Vekshin and James Rowley April 29 (Bloomberg) -- Senate Republicans abandoned their efforts to block debate over legislation overhauling U.S. financial rules, vowing instead to fight for changes to the bill on issues ranging from consumer protection to derivatives. The Senate today will begin considering amendments to the legislation, which...Read Full Story