{"id":546161,"date":"2010-04-28T16:14:58","date_gmt":"2010-04-28T20:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=83446"},"modified":"2010-04-28T16:14:58","modified_gmt":"2010-04-28T20:14:58","slug":"corker-on-gop-finreg-alternative-%e2%80%98i%e2%80%99m-not-sure-what-the-purpose-of-it-is%e2%80%99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/546161","title":{"rendered":"Corker on GOP FinReg Alternative: \u2018I\u2019m Not Sure What the Purpose of It Is\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Corley at ThinkProgress picks up on a bizarre <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2010\/04\/28\/corker-gop-alternative\/\">statement<\/a> from Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) on financial regulatory reform. On CNBC this morning, Corker admitted that he is &#8220;not sure what the purpose of&#8221; the Republican <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/83356\/the-republican-counter-proposal-vs-the-dodd-bill\">alternative plan<\/a> for financial regulatory reform is.<\/p>\n<p>If written well and carefully considered, the Republican bill might have helped to define the parameters of reform, with the ultimate bill presumably falling between it and Sen. Chris Dodd&#8217;s (D-Conn.) bill. But the Republican alternative reform proposal just adopts the Dodd bill&#8217;s architecture. The two are so close, and with differences either so trivial or so glaring, as to give little insight into the concessions Democrats are in the <a href=\"http:\/\/swampland.blogs.time.com\/2010\/04\/28\/republicans-cave-on-financial-reform-debate-to-begin\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed:+timeblogs\/swampland+%28TIME:+Swampland%29\">final stages<\/a> of making.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Corley at ThinkProgress picks up on a bizarre statement from Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) on financial regulatory reform. On CNBC this morning, Corker admitted that he is &#8220;not sure what the purpose of&#8221; the Republican alternative plan for financial regulatory reform is. If written well and carefully considered, the Republican bill might have helped [&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-546161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546161","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=546161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}