Eight of the twelve new members chosen to take seats on the House Financial Services Committee can count the finance,... View Article
Continue readingSenate Moves to Close SEC FOIA Loophole
Yesterday the Senate unanimously voted to close a loophole that may have allowed the SEC to disregard certain FOIA requests. The... View Article
Continue readingDodd and Frank asked to repeal FinReg FOIA exemption
The Sunlight Foundation joined ten organizations today in expressing concern over a provision of the Wall Street Reform and Consumer... View Article
Continue readingDoes FinReg Contain Anti-Transparency Measures?
I’ve been reading about a brewing controversy over whether language in the new Financial Regulations Act — officially the Dodd-Frank... View Article
Continue readingConference committee members seek loopholes, receive high percentage of finance contributions
Four key lawmakers on the financial reform conference committee are seeking to create loopholes in the so-called Volcker Rule and... View Article
Continue readingCongressmen Appointed to Conference Committee Receive Contributions From Financial Industry
Over their careers, the thirty-one congressmen appointed to the conference committee to hash out differences between the House and Senate... View Article
Continue readingSenators Appointed to Conference Committee Connected to Financial Industry
Senators selected to work to combine the House and Senate financial regulation bills in a conference committee are some of... View Article
Continue readingBank lobbyists make very direct quid pro quo argument
Bank lobbyists are really laying it out there. The New York Times reported over the weekend that lobbyists presented their... View Article
Continue readingWhy apply transparency to lobbying?
Multiple stories point to a huge lobbying effort on the part of the financial industry as the Senate debates reform... View Article
Continue readingWall Street Lobbyists Pine For Behind The Scenes Deals
Last week, Ezra Klein wrote a post on how members of both parties are still running around raising money from... View Article
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