Republican Representative Spencer Bachus, Chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, has come out in strong opposition to the Dodd-Frank Act of 2010, giving the new law a grade of F in July of 2011. Why? What’s objectionable about a law that creates an independent consumer protection watchdog agency with the job of making sure [...]
Notable House and Senate Hearings for the week of March 22-26, 2010: Banking and Finance Monday, March 22 at 5 PM the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee will hold a markup session to consider and pass on a bill by Chairman Christopher Dodd called the Restoring American Financial Stability Act of 2010. The [...]
Tim Rupli is a registered lobbyist for a variety of non-profit and for-profit corporations including the anti-immigration Numbers USA, the payday-lenders’ association called the Community Financial Services Association of America, the Independent Community Bankers of America, MetaBank, the Network Branded Prepaid Card Association, weapons training corporation Lasershot Inc., and pharmaceutical corporation Sepracor. In compensation for [...]
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