{"id":234994,"date":"2010-01-26T16:55:03","date_gmt":"2010-01-26T21:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/economics\/2010\/01\/26\/volcker-expected-to-testify-on-white-houses-volcker-rule-in-senate-on-feb-2\/"},"modified":"2010-01-26T16:55:03","modified_gmt":"2010-01-26T21:55:03","slug":"volcker-expected-to-testify-on-white-house%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%98volcker-rule%e2%80%99-in-senate-on-feb-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/234994","title":{"rendered":"Volcker Expected to Testify on White House\u2019s \u2018Volcker Rule\u2019 in Senate on Feb. 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <strong>Senate Banking Committee<\/strong> is expected to have a hearing Tuesday, Feb. 2, to hear from former <strong>Federal Reserve<\/strong> Chairman <strong>Paul Volcker<\/strong> about the White House\u0092s recent proposal to limit the size and risk of big U.S. banks.<\/p>\n<p>The White House announced the new plan last week and is calling part of it the \u0093Volcker Rule,\u0094 but they haven\u0092t provided many details about how exactly the new limits would work. The plan would make it harder for big banks to grow and would also prohibit companies with federally insured deposits from certain trading activities.<\/p>\n<p>The hearing is part of an effort by lawmakers on the panel to come up with a bipartisan plan to overhaul financial regulation.<\/p>\n<p>Final details of the hearing haven\u0092t been nailed down, such as whether other witnesses will attend.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/8N3R-wfFHrDUpwVcvdZWje-Mvlk\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/8N3R-wfFHrDUpwVcvdZWje-Mvlk\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/8N3R-wfFHrDUpwVcvdZWje-Mvlk\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/8N3R-wfFHrDUpwVcvdZWje-Mvlk\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/wsj\/economics\/feed?a=IXZ4uA7Qidg:MlaEjI7dEmg:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/wsj\/economics\/feed?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/wsj\/economics\/feed?a=IXZ4uA7Qidg:MlaEjI7dEmg:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/wsj\/economics\/feed?i=IXZ4uA7Qidg:MlaEjI7dEmg:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/wsj\/economics\/feed?a=IXZ4uA7Qidg:MlaEjI7dEmg:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/wsj\/economics\/feed?i=IXZ4uA7Qidg:MlaEjI7dEmg:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/wsj\/economics\/feed?a=IXZ4uA7Qidg:MlaEjI7dEmg:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/wsj\/economics\/feed?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/wsj\/economics\/feed\/~4\/IXZ4uA7Qidg\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate Banking Committee is expected to have a hearing Tuesday, Feb. 2, to hear from former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker about the White House\u0092s recent proposal to limit the size and risk of big U.S. banks. The White House announced the new plan last week and is calling part of it the \u0093Volcker [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":850,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/850"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}