DES MOINES — Texas Gov. Rick Perry swung through Des Moines on the caucus campaign trail last week, bringing a touch of Texas swagger to the Iowa Credit Union Convention while again railing against federal regulations.
Today, President Obama announced he will not sign H.R. 3808, the Interstate Recognition of Notarizations Act of 2010, quietly passed through the Senate with no debate on Sept. 27. Instead, the president will return the bill to the House, effectively killing the legislation. White House Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer More…
From The New York Times this morning:
“As every student of American history knows, this country’s core founding principles included nonpunitive taxation, constitutionally guaranteed protections against persecution of the minority and an inexorable right of self-determination,” [one hedge fund manager] wrote.
Today, Rep. John Boehner (Ohio), the House minority leader, sent a letter (PDF) to the White House asking President Barack Obama to tally the pending regulations that might cost the economy more than $1 billion.
The letter comes as Republicans push the argument that big Democratic policies — health More…
Despite Republican objections, congressional Democrats did not include reforms of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac or of the broader mortgage market in the Dodd-Frank financial regulatory reform bill — now law. The administration has promised comprehensive reform but thus far has not named any objectives, costs More…
The big Senate vote was last week, but President Obama’s signature just made it official: The sweeping Frank-Dodd financial regulatory reform law is now on the books.
In a ceremony at the White House today, surrounded by policy experts and bankers, President Obama will sign the sweeping Dodd-Frank financial regulatory reform bill into law.
The final bill, more than 2,300 pages in length, directs regulators to create 533 new rules — applying to everything from debit cards More…
Today, more stories are adding detail to the debate over whether Elizabeth Warren should become the first head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
The discussion kicked off after the final passage of the Dodd-Frank financial regulatory reform bill, which will become law when President Obama signs it tomorrow. More…
The Dodd-Frank financial regulatory reform bill — passed out of Congress yesterday and headed for President Obama’s desk next week — runs for 2,300 pages, directs regulators to create more than 500 new rules and orders 68 studies. It is a complicated piece of work. As such, there are More…
The Dodd-Frank financial regulatory reform bill — the product of 18 months of study and negotiation by Democratic and Republican lawmakers — this morning passed a decisive cloture vote, 60 to 38, with Republican Sens. Scott Brown (Mass.), Olympia Snowe (Maine) and Susan Collins (Maine) voting with Democrats to More…
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