Financial Reform – Delaware Liberal

Liberal Things To Do

By liberalgeek February 24, 201112 Comments

If you have an open evening on Saturday, you may consider heading over to Theatre N for a screening of Inside Job at 8:30, followed by a Q&A session about the current state of Financial Regulation. One of the people that will participate in the discussion is Greg Wilson, Communications Director with the Delaware Community Reinvestment Action Council. Greg is a great resource for all things FinReg. If you can't make Saturday night, there are other showings throughout the weekend, but the discussion after the Saturday showing promises to be interesting and enlightening.

Call Senator Carper, Sign the Petition

By cassandra_m June 16, 2010

The Progressive Change Campaign Committee is working on an effort today to get constituents of Wall Street reform conferees asking us to sign the Hoenig-Fisher letter

Financial Reform Conference

By Unstable Isotope June 15, 2010

Right now the Financial Reform bill conference is taking place and it's being broadcast. You can go to this link to watch the hearings. Here's a great post by Joan…

Financial Reform Passes The Senate

By Unstable Isotope May 20, 20105 Comments

President Obama scored another big legislative victory in the Senate tonight. The Senate approved a far-reaching financial regulation bill Thursday evening, paving the way for enactment of the most extensive…

Where There’s A Good Bill To Weaken, Tom Carper Is There

By Unstable Isotope May 13, 201014 Comments

Tom Carper has introduced an amendment to the Financial Reform bill to pre-empt tougher state laws to weaker federal standards.

Kaufman’s Amendment To Break Up “Too Big To Fail” Banks Fails

By Unstable Isotope May 7, 201013 Comments

Senator Kaufman's amendment to break up "too big to fail" banks was defeated yesterday.

The White House’s Top Ten FinReg Loophole Watchlist

By Scott P May 4, 20101 Comment

White House Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer has a very interesting post today on the official White House blog listing what, in the administration's eyes, are the 10 most wanted lobbyist…

What Are Republicans Trying to Achieve on FinReg?

By Scott P May 3, 20104 Comments

I know this isn't as exciting as burning terror cars or oiled-up shrimping grounds, but here's a few words about Financial Reform. Late last Wednesday night, as Senate Democrats were…

The GOP FinReg Proposal — A Good Sign or Bad?

By Scott P April 28, 201012 Comments

Last night, Republicans released their counter-proposal to Chris Dodd's Financial Reform Bill (full text here). I don't claim to have read either in its entirety, but the general consensus seems…

Shitty Deal

By Unstable Isotope April 28, 20106 Comments

For a second time yesterday, all the Senate Republicans + Ben Nelson were able to block the financial regulation reform bill from coming to a vote in the Senate. On…

The Democratic Party Could Do A Public Service

By Unstable Isotope April 27, 20106 Comments

We've all been watching recently the slow and painful progress of the financial reform bill. Yesterday the Republicans hung together to block debate from even beginning on the Senate bill.…

A Tale of Two Senators

By liberalgeek April 21, 20104 Comments

I don't know if you caught the story in the News Journal this morning featuring the work that Senator Kaufman is doing on financial reform. He talks passionately about dismantling…

I Feel Like I’ve Heard This Song Before

By Unstable Isotope April 21, 201023 Comments

Delaware's very own Tom Carper is ready to surrender and weaken the Financial Reform bill right when Republicans seem to be weakening. Carper, a member of the Senate Finance Committee,…