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Michael Bennet Joins Republicans In Challenging Financial Reform Bill

The Denver Post | Posted 11.25.2009 | Denver

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U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet suddenly finds himself the darling of liberals on health care reform, but he appears more cautious on the Democrats' other ma...

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Dodd Muted On Bernanke Renomination Prospects

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 11.20.2009 | Business

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Just six weeks after he told Reuters it was essentially a done deal, Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd punted when asked about the l...

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Dodd's Finacial Reform Bill Strips The Federal Reserve Of Too Much Power, Say Critics

McClatchy | Kevin G. Hall | Posted 11.13.2009 | Business

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WASHINGTON -- Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd's sweeping new financial overhaul legislation, which proposes to strip the Federal Re...

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Why Sen. Dodd's Opposition to the Federal Reserve is Ill-Conceived

Georges Ugeux | Posted 11.13.2009 | Politics

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Had Senate Banking Committee's Chairman Chris Dodd's proposal been effective before the crisis, where would we be today?

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State Regulators: Dodd's Bank Bill Creates Another 'Too Big To Fail' Problem

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 11.13.2009 | Business

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State bank regulators are warning that Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd's proposal to create one monolithic federal bank regulator w...

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Dodd's Banking Bill Takes The Fed Down A Notch Or Two: HELP US DIG THROUGH IT

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour and Ryan Grim | Posted 11.18.2009 | Business

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Scroll down to see how you can help HuffPost dig through Dodd's new bill. "This is not a time for timidity," Senate Banking Committee Chairman Chris ...

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Democrats: Overdraft Fees Must Be Curtailed

AP | ANNE FLAHERTY | Posted 10.30.2009 | Business

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WASHINGTON — Senior congressional Democrats say legislation is still needed to limit how lenders charge customers who overspend on their account...

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Michael Bennet's Wall Street Ties Bring Him Money, Criticism

The Denver Post | Mike Riley | Posted 10.04.2009 | Denver

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WASHINGTON -- With a push in Congress to reform regulation over Wall Street, financial firms have been spending big, and among the major beneficiaries...

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Regulation? They're Banking on the Status Quo

Rick Horowitz | Posted 11.25.2009 | Politics

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There were those who expected the financial-services industry to slink away in embarrassment after the setbacks of the past year. These people misjudged us.

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Senate May Narrow Proposed Regulatory Role For Fed

Washington Post | Brady Dennis | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics

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The Obama administration's vision for revamping the nation's financial regulatory system could face significant revisions in the Senate, where propose...

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Banks' Favorite Dem Set To Chair Banking Committee

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 10.17.2009 | Business

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If Senator Tim Johnson ascends to the chairmanship of the Senate Banking Committee, the biggest winners will be Wall Street, pay-day lenders and credi...

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States Forced to Cut Services to the Bone: The Opportunity Cost of the Bank Bailout

Arianna Huffington | Posted 08.23.2009 | Home

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Reading about the huge budget cuts almost every state in the country is being forced to make quickly puts the $4.7 trillion we have pumped into the financial sector into perspective, and leaves us pondering: what else we could have done with that money?

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Geithner: "I'm Not Chairman -- Yet" (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 07.19.2009 | Business

Read More: Bob Corker, Timothy Geithner, Senate Banking Committee, Chris Dodd, Tim Geithner, Ben Bernanke, Business News

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner told the Senate on Thursday that he isn't "Mr. Chairman -- yet." Geither was testifying before the Senate Banking...

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Sen. Richard Shelby: Keep Stress Test Results Secret

The Hill | Posted 06.05.2009 | Politics

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Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.), the top ranking Republican on the Senate Banking Committee, thinks the government should keep the results of bank "stres...

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Chris Dodd's Personal Bailout From Finance Industry

Mother Jones | —Kevin Canfield | Posted 05.17.2009 | Politics

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As Senator Chris Dodd fights for his political career, the embattled chairman of the powerful Senate banking committee is receiving his own economic r...

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Bernanke Appears Before Senate Banking Committee (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Posted 03.27.2009 | Politics

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Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke faces questions from the Senate Banking Committee Tuesday. His testimony comes a day after the government mo...

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Bush the Teflon Man

Logan Nakyanzi Pollard | Posted 01.18.2009 | Politics

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Perhaps it was the sexual nature of Eliot Spitzer's offenses that made the shame stick. That and the fact that the former NY governor admitted he did wrong. Bush by contrast is today's Teflon man.

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Congress Bails out Those Who Shower Before Work, but not Those who Shower After Work

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 12.26.2008 | Business

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Detroit is a place where workers are unionized; Wall Street is not. And right-wing Republicans and conservative pundits have made it clear they want the union workers to suffer.

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Dodd Says Auto Bailout Lacks Votes In Senate

New York Times | DAVID M. HERSZENHORN | Posted 12.14.2008 | Business

Read More: Automaker Bailout, Senate Banking Committee, Bailout, Economy, Financial Crisis, Chris Dodd, Senate, Business News

The chairman of the Senate banking committee said on Thursday that he did not believe there would be enough Republican support for efforts to aid flou...

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Sen. John McMighty-Mouse: "Here I Come to Save the Day!"

Andy Ostroy | Posted 10.27.2008 | Politics

Read More: Senate Banking Committee, New York Mets, John McCain, Wall Street Crisis, Hank Paulson, Shea Stadium, Barney Frank, Chris Dodd, Bailout Bill, President Bush, Barack Obama, Ben Bernanke, House Financial Services Committee, Politics News

Why stop with Wall Street? There are plenty of other crises for which McCain could come to the rescue. Take the New York Mets, for example.

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Rush Transcript of the Senate Banking Committee Hearing with Paulson and Bernanke

Lauren Kirchner | Posted 01.13.2009 | Business

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Bernanke's Banking Committee Statement

NY Times | Posted 10.24.2008 | Politics

Read More: Ben Bernanke, Wall Street Crisis, Senate Banking Committee, Politics News

Chairman Dodd, Senator Shelby, and members of the Committee, I appreciate this opportunity to discuss recent developments in financial markets and the...

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Paulson's Banking Committee Statement

NY Times | Posted 10.24.2008 | Politics

Read More: Henry Paulson, Wall Street Crisis, Senate Banking Committee, Hank Paulson, Banking Crisis, Politics News

Chairman Dodd, Senator Shelby, members of the committee, thank you for the opportunity to appear before you today. I appreciate that this is a difficu...

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Henry Paulson: Taxpayers Are Already On The Hook (VIDEO)

CNBC | Dave Burdick | Posted 11.03.2008 | Business

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Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, facing a barrage of questions from Congress, seemed to get frustrated at the Senate banking committee's questions ab...

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