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cal04

(41,505 posts)
Fri Jun 29, 2012, 06:41 PM Jun 2012

President Obama Threatens To Veto Bill That Defunds Wall Street Reform

House Republicans, after failing to prevent the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial reform law from passing Congress, have attempted to undermine it by refusing to give Wall Street regulators adequate funds to do their jobs. Both the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission are short of the funding they require, and House Republicans recently voted in committee to fund the SEC $245 million below the Obama administration’s request for 2013.

However, should that funding bill actually reach President Obama’s desk, he has announced that he will veto it:
http://thehill.com/blogs/on-the-money/banking-financial-institutions/235453-obama-threatens-to-veto-bill-defunding-healthcare-wall-st-reforms

The 2013 Financial Services bill is heading to the House floor after being considered by the Rules Committee on Thursday.

“The bill severely undermines key investments in financial oversight and implementation of Wall Street reform to protect American consumers, as well as needed tax enforcement and taxpayer services. It also hampers effective implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA),” the White House statement reads.

http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/06/29/508998/obama-veto-defund-wall-street-reform/


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President Obama Threatens To Veto Bill That Defunds Wall Street Reform (Original Post) cal04 Jun 2012 OP
I thought the working class right ... 1StrongBlackMan Jun 2012 #1
 

1StrongBlackMan

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1. I thought the working class right ...
Fri Jun 29, 2012, 06:47 PM
Jun 2012

just wasn't paying attention to what the gop was doing ... After today, I'm convinced they know; but just don't care.

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