Dodd St Gang Members

OVERNIGHT MONEY: Dirty dozen

Over at the Capitol, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) announced Wednesday that his chamber would vote on the House-passed “Cut, Cap and Balance” plan on Saturday . With the president having said that Friday is the deadline for a grand budget bargain, Reid said he was waiting on the House, with the so-called Reid-McConnell contingency plan apparently waiting in the wings. On the Gang of Six front, the House and Senate Republican budget staffs went to work picking apart the plan, while seniors groups like the AARP and the Strengthen Social Security Campaign went on the attack for its specific recommendation to trim Social Security benefits by changing the way inflation is calculated. Still, that “chained CPI” concept had been a part of the Boehner-Obama grand bargain, and might yet be tied to the debt ceiling. Debating Dodd-Frank : The Aspen Institute’s examination of the Wall Street reform law will include some of D.C.'s heavyweights, including Rep. Spencer Bachus (R-Ala.), the chairman of the House Financial Services Committee; Sen. Jack Reed (D-R.I.), a Senate Banking member; and Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.), chairman of the Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. Michael Barr, the former Treasury Department official who helped steer Dodd-Frank through Congress, will also be weighing in. Debating Dodd-Frank, part deux : The Senate Banking Committee will be bringing its own list of Dodd-Frank hotshots to bear with a hearing tomorrow on — guess what? — the law’s first birthday. One of the bill's eponymous sponsors — Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) — will make the trip over to the Senate side, to be followed up by basically every major regulator charged with implementing Dodd-Frank. The top officials from the Federal Reserve, Securities and Exchange Commission, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Treasury and the Comptroller of the Currency will all be in the house (er, Senate). Debating Dodd-Frank, the hat trick : House Republicans will not be coming to praise Dodd-Frank, but to alter it. The GOP is bringing to the floor a bill that would make three changes to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) — all of which are aimed at curbing the power of the new agency. While the GOP majority will likely pass the bill, don't expect it to get much further.

On The Anniversary Of Dodd-Frank: Wall Street Fights Back And ...

Three years ago this summer, the flood tide of Wall Street recklessness began to overtop the weakened levees of restraint erected decades ago to protect our nation from financial disaster. By the fall of 2008, the economy was drowning in a sea of recession, with businesses shuttered and struggling, millions of people tossed out of their homes and their jobs, and the hopes and aspirations of millions more crushed beneath the weight of the financial floodwaters.

One year ago this week, to begin repairing the damage wrought by this avoidable catastrophe and to avert the next financial crisis, President Obama signed the Dodd-Frank financial reform law, enacting sweeping and needed new protections for the marketplace and consumers. The law contained the most significant changes in financial regulation since the 1930s, sensibly so given the magnitude of the calamity we faced.

From the beginning, it was obvious that overhauling the financial system would be no easy task given the power of Wall Street and their political allies and the increasing concentration of wealth and clout that has come to shape our economy and political system. But the fierceness of the resistance to change has been nothing short of breathtaking. Instead of putting all hands on deck to fix the breached levees in the nation’s interest, opponents of reform have thrown every roadblock imaginable into the path of the repair crews charged with carrying out the new law.

From the moment the legislation was signed, the agents of its destruction went to work. Wall Street lobbying has intensified, with expenditures of nearly $52 million during the first quarter of this year exceeding the amount spent in the same period last year when the bill was being debated. Congressional Republicans introduced a raft of bills to repeal or eviscerate the newly minted reforms. They have blocked the appointment of key regulators when the nation most needs a steady and strong hand at the financial tiller, including pledging to reject any nominee to head the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau unless the agency’s authority is weakened.

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