Michael Bennet Joins Republicans In Challenging Financial Reform Bill
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...
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...
HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 11.20.2009 | Business
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...
McClatchy | Kevin G. Hall | Posted 11.13.2009 | Business
WASHINGTON -- Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd's sweeping new financial overhaul legislation, which proposes to strip the Federal Re...
Georges Ugeux | Posted 11.13.2009 | Politics
Had Senate Banking Committee's Chairman Chris Dodd's proposal been effective before the crisis, where would we be today?
HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 11.13.2009 | Business
State bank regulators are warning that Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd's proposal to create one monolithic federal bank regulator w...
HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour and Ryan Grim | Posted 11.18.2009 | Business
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 ...
AP | ANNE FLAHERTY | Posted 10.30.2009 | Business
WASHINGTON — Senior congressional Democrats say legislation is still needed to limit how lenders charge customers who overspend on their account...
The Denver Post | Mike Riley | Posted 10.04.2009 | Denver
WASHINGTON -- With a push in Congress to reform regulation over Wall Street, financial firms have been spending big, and among the major beneficiaries...
Rick Horowitz | Posted 11.25.2009 | Politics
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.
Washington Post | Brady Dennis | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics
The Obama administration's vision for revamping the nation's financial regulatory system could face significant revisions in the Senate, where propose...
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 10.17.2009 | Business
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...
Arianna Huffington | Posted 08.23.2009 | Home
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?
HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 07.19.2009 | Business
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner told the Senate on Thursday that he isn't "Mr. Chairman -- yet." Geither was testifying before the Senate Banking...
The Hill | Posted 06.05.2009 | Politics
Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.), the top ranking Republican on the Senate Banking Committee, thinks the government should keep the results of bank "stres...
Mother Jones | —Kevin Canfield | Posted 05.17.2009 | Politics
As Senator Chris Dodd fights for his political career, the embattled chairman of the powerful Senate banking committee is receiving his own economic r...
The Huffington Post | Posted 03.27.2009 | Politics
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke faces questions from the Senate Banking Committee Tuesday. His testimony comes a day after the government mo...
Logan Nakyanzi Pollard | Posted 01.18.2009 | Politics
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.
Leo W. Gerard | Posted 12.26.2008 | Business
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.
New York Times | DAVID M. HERSZENHORN | Posted 12.14.2008 | Business
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...
Andy Ostroy | Posted 10.27.2008 | Politics
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.
Lauren Kirchner | Posted 01.13.2009 | Business

NY Times | Posted 10.24.2008 | Politics
Chairman Dodd, Senator Shelby, and members of the Committee, I appreciate this opportunity to discuss recent developments in financial markets and the...
NY Times | Posted 10.24.2008 | Politics
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...
CNBC | Dave Burdick | Posted 11.03.2008 | Business
Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, facing a barrage of questions from Congress, seemed to get frustrated at the Senate banking committee's questions ab...
Deborah Senn | Posted 10.24.2008 | Business
AIG's financial meltdown this past week was not the result of failed insurance regulation. (Go ahead. Read that one more time, real slow.)
The Denver Post | Posted 11.25.2009 | Denver