{"id":567179,"date":"2010-05-17T17:30:28","date_gmt":"2010-05-17T21:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=84958"},"modified":"2010-05-17T17:30:28","modified_gmt":"2010-05-17T21:30:28","slug":"finreg-endgame-to-start-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/567179","title":{"rendered":"FinReg Endgame to Start Tonight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The amendment-athon on Sen. Chris Dodd&#8217;s (D-Conn.) financial regulatory reform bill is coming to a close, with staffers saying only five or so more amendments will receive votes. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has indicated that he plans to file cloture on the bill &#8212; ending debate and leading to an up-or-down vote on the measure &#8212; tonight.<\/p>\n<p>But he probably does not have the 60 votes to end debate this go-around. Sen. Byron Dorgan (N.D.), a Democrat, has indicated that he might not vote with Reid, who needs all Democrats to stick together to move forward.<span id=\"more-84958\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Senate just agreed to Sen. Jay Rockefeller&#8217;s (D-W.V.) amendment preserving certain regulatory authority for the Federal Trade Commission, passing the measure by voice vote. Starting at 5:30 tonight, the Senate will vote on Sen. Mike Crapo&#8217;s (R-Idaho) amendment modifying credit-risk requirements for mortgage assets; Sen. John Cornyn&#8217;s (R-Texas) amendment changing some procedures regarding the International Monetary Fund; and Sen. Mark Udall&#8217;s (D-Colo.) amendment increasing ease of access to credit scores.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The amendment-athon on Sen. Chris Dodd&#8217;s (D-Conn.) financial regulatory reform bill is coming to a close, with staffers saying only five or so more amendments will receive votes. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has indicated that he plans to file cloture on the bill &#8212; ending debate and leading to an up-or-down vote on [&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-567179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567179","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=567179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}