Topic: Bob Corker
Key senators like Bob Corker opposed Elizabeth Warren, so President Obama has decided to bypass the Senate altogether to name her the interim director of the new Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection today. A consumer champion, Warren is the enemy of bank ...
Back on March 11, when Chris Dodd put financial reform on a forced short timetable, I said that " Well, that date has been and gone, and now a bill with no Republican support has been pushed through the Senate banking committee ...
On Thursday, committee Chairman Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., announced he would introduce his own version of a bill Monday and leave it to committee members to sort out their differences in the week before the scheduled mark up on March 22. Sen. Bob ...
In the latest development in the ongoing saga of how to prevent the events of 2008 from happening once again, Bloomberg reports that talks have broken down between Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd (D-CN) and Bob Corker (R-TN) with Dodd now ...
Administration calls for limits on size of financial institutions, pushes consumer protections The Obama administration waded into negotiations over Wall Street regulations Wednesday, calling for limits on the size of financial institutions and insisting that consumer protections remain a central objective of ...
Edmund Andrews, freed from the strictures of writing for the NYT, is proving to be a valuable addition to the econoblogosphere: Today he not only writes smartly about Chris Dodd's CFPA compromise, but also posts the actual document. It's well worth reading, ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Bipartisan agreement in the Senate on financial reform hit a snag on how much power to give a consumer watchdog office being proposed by Democrats, with marathon talks resuming on Sunday." BILL MAY NARROW The struggle in the Senate ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A bipartisan agreement on financial regulation reform was close at hand on Thursday in the Senate, with lawmakers working to overcome a key obstacle -- creating a new financial consumer watchdog.Democratic Senator Christopher Dodd, committee chairman, and top committee ...
The single biggest question hanging over the future of financial reform in the US right now is what exactly is acceptable to Bob Corker in terms of a Consumer Financial Protection Agency. Simon Johnson says that "the consumer protection agency is likely ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Key senators pushed for a bipartisan agreement on a package of reforms to tighten rules for financial industry behavior as President Barack Obama on Wednesday blasted critics who call his policies "" Negotiations for some kind of Senate pact, ...
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Corker Comments on Tonight's State ...
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Sen. Bob Corker Interview on the ...
US Senator Bob Corker joins Steve in studio for a ...2012-01-12
