{"id":576521,"date":"2010-05-24T12:09:35","date_gmt":"2010-05-24T16:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=85541"},"modified":"2010-05-24T12:09:35","modified_gmt":"2010-05-24T16:09:35","slug":"frank-to-head-financial-regulatory-reform-conference-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/576521","title":{"rendered":"Frank to Head Financial Regulatory Reform Conference Committee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) will <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/idUSTRE64N30520100524?type=politicsNews&amp;feedType=RSS&amp;feedName=politicsNews&amp;utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Reuters%2FPoliticsNews+%28News+%2F+US+%2F+Politics+News%29&amp;utm_content=Twitter\">head<\/a> the conference committee charged with reconciling the House and Senate versions of financial regulatory reform.\u00a0The committee is comprised of legislators who worked on the initial  bills, from the Senate Banking Committee, House Financial Services  Committee and Senate Agriculture committee. The Senate might name its members as soon as today, and the House is  expected to name its members next week.<\/p>\n<p>At 5:30 p.m. today, the Senate is voting on whether to recommend its representatives on the conference committee push for provisions in two amendments that did not receive votes. <span id=\"more-85541\"><\/span>(The &#8220;will of the Senate&#8221; measures are not binding.) They are Sen. Sam Brownback&#8217;s (R-Kans.) amendment exempting auto lenders from Consumer Financial Protection Agency rules (identified by consumer advocates as a highly <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/85482\/consumer-groups-praise-financial-reform-but-cautiously\">problematic<\/a> measure) and Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison&#8217;s (R-Texas) amendment weakening restrictions on proprietary trading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) will head the conference committee charged with reconciling the House and Senate versions of financial regulatory reform.\u00a0The committee is comprised of legislators who worked on the initial bills, from the Senate Banking Committee, House Financial Services Committee and Senate Agriculture committee. The Senate might name its members as soon as today, [&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-576521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576521","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=576521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}