January 19, 2015

Republicans use ‘death by a thousand cuts’ strategy to deregulate Wall Street

Republicans use ‘death by a thousand cuts’ strategy to deregulate Wall Street

"For the second time in two weeks, House Republicans brought up a package of 11 bills designed to deregulate Wall Street and water down Dodd-Frank financial reforms. This time, they had the votes to pass it.

Today’s bill easily cleared the hurdle of majority support, gaining final passage by a count of 271-154 largely along party lines."