As top Federal Reserve officials debated whether there was a housing bubble and what to do about it, then-Chairman Alan Greenspan argued that dissent ...
The White House, Federal Reserve and Wall Street lobbyists are kicking up their opposition to an amendment to audit the Fed as a Senate vote approache...
The Federal Reserve is privately lobbying against a bipartisan Senate amendment that would open the central bank to an audit by the Government Account...
A simple majority of the Senate will be all that is required to adopt an amendment to Wall Street reform, if Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) gets ...
In arguing against the reading of Miranda rights to terrorism suspects or affording them other constitutional protections, opponents of civil libertie...
Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), the Senate's number two Democrat, took to the floor Tuesday to back an amendment to Wall Street reform that would break up big b...
A Senate amendment to open the Federal Reserve to a government audit continued to pick up support on Tuesday. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), who voted ...
Harry Reid has always had a way of turning a phrase. On Wednesday afternoon, he turned his talents to a description of the GOP's relationship with Wal...
Lead Senate negotiators have reached a deal on the portion of the Wall Street reform bill that deals with banks considered "too big to fail", Sen. Chr...
A bipartisan pair of senators opened a second front in the fight to bring transparency to the Federal Reserve on Wednesday, introducing an amendment t...
For the first time since the Great Depression, Congress has Wall Street on the defensive. One setback after another has beset the financial titans acc...
Harry Reid will make sure that an amendment to break up megabanks and cap their size comes up for a vote, the Senate majority leader said. He added th...
Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) will cosponsor Sen. Bernie Sanders' (I-Vt.) amendment to audit the Fed, he said on the Senate floor Thursday afternoon, thou...
A move to break up major Wall Street banks failed Thursday night by a vote of 61 to 33. Three Republicans, Richard Shelby of Alabama, Tom Coburn of O...
No politician has been more closely associated with the populist assault on the Fed over the last few decades than Dr. Ron Paul, the libertarian-leani...
UPDATE - 12:10 p.m. - The amendment to open the Fed to a one-time audit of its lending between December 1, 2007 and the present passed 96-0. * * * *...
A critical amendment to the Wall Street reform bill being debated in the Senate this week picked up a key Republican backer Tuesday. The amendment, sp...
A group of 27 major donors is vowing to withhold campaign cash from lawmakers who stand in the way of legislation that would allow for public funding ...
Battling to delay Wall Street reform from hitting the Senate floor, Republicans worried that once the bill was being debated in public, it would be ha...
The shadow campaign for the Senate majority leader position has been underway for several months, but the man who currently holds the job -- and who p...
Just days ahead of a key Kentucky GOP primary, Mitch McConnell cast a symbolic vote against auditing the Federal Reserve -- the issue that is most clo...
A bipartisan effort to bring increased transparency to the system that allows individual senators to secretly hold up legislation and nominations coll...
Senate Republicans are threatening to filibuster an amendment that would bar commercial banks from using taxpayer-backed money to trade for their own ...
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) is "likely" to file cloture on the Wall Street reform bill Monday evening, setting up a final vote on the l...
Mark Souder resigned his congressional seat on Tuesday, confessing to an affair with a staffer and ending an eight-term career as a Republican from In...
