{"id":537535,"date":"2010-04-21T13:17:08","date_gmt":"2010-04-21T17:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=82889"},"modified":"2010-04-21T13:17:08","modified_gmt":"2010-04-21T17:17:08","slug":"republicans-near-a-finreg-deal-derivatives-proposal-moves-out-of-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/537535","title":{"rendered":"Republicans Near a FinReg Deal; Derivatives Proposal Moves Out of Committee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Talking Points Memo <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2010\/04\/shelby-says-deal-is-close-will-get-substantial-gop-support.php\">reports<\/a> that Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.), the ranking member of the Senate Banking Committee, says Republicans are close to supporting Sen. Chris Dodd&#8217;s (D-Conn.) financial regulatory reform bill. &#8220;We&#8217;re very close to a deal and there will be a substantial number of  Republicans that go along with it,&#8221; Shelby says. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) had last week <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/82603\/collins-signs-republican-letter-opposing-finreg\">convinced<\/a> all 41 Republican Senators to sign on to a letter opposing the bill on the grounds that it would create &#8220;perpetual bailouts&#8221; for Wall Street firms. It now seems Republicans will not filibuster the popular bill.<span id=\"more-82889\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the <a href=\"http:\/\/ag.senate.gov\/site\/\">Senate Agriculture Committee<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/ag.senate.gov\/site\/news.html\">passed<\/a> Sen. Blanche Lincoln&#8217;s (D-Ark.) derivatives reform bill out of committee. All of the committee Democrats, plus Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), agreed to the plan, which Wall Street stringently opposes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Talking Points Memo reports that Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.), the ranking member of the Senate Banking Committee, says Republicans are close to supporting Sen. Chris Dodd&#8217;s (D-Conn.) financial regulatory reform bill. &#8220;We&#8217;re very close to a deal and there will be a substantial number of Republicans that go along with it,&#8221; Shelby says. Senate Minority [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-537535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537535","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\/6662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=537535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}