Majority Press Releases

July 8, 2010

DODD REACTS TO TREASURY’S CURRENCY REPORT

WASHINGTON - Senate Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd (D-CT) made the following statement in response to the Treasury Department's semi-annual Report on International Economic and Exchange Rate Policies submitted today to the Senate Banking Committee and House Financial Services Committee. "Today's Treasury report made clear for the record what we all already knew -- China continues to undervalue its currency," said Dodd. "For years, American workers have not been able to compete on a l… Continue Reading


July 2, 2010

FACT CHECK: COMMUNITY BANKS WIN WITH WALL STREET REFORM

REDUCING SYSTEMIC RISK - Community banks benefit when large banks pay for the risks they create to the system. Advance Warning System: Creates a systemic-risk regime that would rein in the size and scope of large, interconnected financial institutions. Tougher Supervision of Large, Interconnected Financial Companies: Large bank holding companies (those with over $50 billion in assets) and systemically important nonbank financial companies will face heightened risk-based capital, le… Continue Reading


July 1, 2010

DODD STATEMENT IN IRAN SANCTIONS BILL SIGNING

WASHINGTON -- Senate Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd (D-CT), co-author of the Comprehensive Iran Sanctions, Accountability, and Divestment Act of 2010 along with House Foreign Affairs Chairman Berman, issued the following statement after President Obama signed the bill into law this evening. "The government of Iran engages in serious human rights abuses against its own citizens, funds terrorist activity throughout the Middle East, and is pursuing illicit nuclear activities which pose … Continue Reading


June 30, 2010

DODD PRAISES HOUSE PASSAGE OF WALL STREET REFORM

WASHINGTON -- Today, Senate Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd (D-CT) issued the following statement following House passage of the House-Senate Conference on the bill to bring accountability to Wall Street. The bill ends too big to fail bailouts, creates a new consumer financial protection watchdog, sets up an early warning system to protect our economy from future threats, and brings transparency and accountability to exotic instruments such as derivatives. "I congratulate the Hou… Continue Reading


June 29, 2010

COMMITTEE PASSES PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION SAFETY ACT

Bipartisan bill will improve transit safety oversight and establish national safety standards for transit systems across the country WASHINGTON - Today Senate Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd (D-CT) held a mark up during which the Public Transportation Safety Act of 2010 was unanimously approved. The bipartisan bill, which will improve transit safety oversight and establish national safety standards, was authored by Chairman Dodd, Ranking Member Richard Shelby (R-AL), and Housing, … Continue Reading


June 25, 2010

DODD STATEMENT ON WALL STREET REFORM CONFERENCE

WASHINGTON - Today, Senate Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd (D-CT) issued the following statement on the conclusion of the House-Senate Conference on the bill to bring accountability to Wall Street. The bill creates a new consumer financial protection watchdog, ends too big to fail bailouts, sets up an early warning system to predict and prevent the next crisis, and brings transparency and accountability to exotic instruments such as derivatives. "This is a tremendous day," said Dodd. "… Continue Reading


June 22, 2010

DODD, SHELBY, MENENDEZ TO MARK UP NATIONAL TRANSIT SAFETY BILL

WASHINGTON - Today, Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee Chairman Chris Dodd (D-CT), Ranking Member Richard Shelby (R-AL) and Housing, Transportation, and Community Development Subcommittee Chairman Robert Menendez (D-NJ) announced they will mark up their bipartisan legislation to establish national safety standards for transit systems across the country in the coming weeks. The announcement comes on the first anniversary of Metro's Red Line collision that killed eight passenger… Continue Reading


June 22, 2010

FRANK, DODD ANNOUNCE CONFERENCE SCHEDULE

Washington, DC - Today, Chairman Frank and Chairman Dodd announced that the House-Senate Conference will meet at 1 p.m. on Wednesday, June 23, and 9:30 a.m. on Thursday, June 24, in Room SD-106, Dirksen Senate Office Building, to consider the following issues: Wednesday, June 23 Pending offers and counter-offers Prudential regulation-title 6 of base text Thursday, June 24 Pending offers and counter-offers Derivatives-title 7 of base text Miscellaneous… Continue Reading


June 21, 2010

WALL STREET REFORM CONFERENCE UPDATE

Washington -Last week was a successful week for the House and Senate conferees for the bill to bring accountability to Wall Street. The bill creates a new consumer financial protection watchdog, ends too big to fail bailouts, sets up an early warning system to predict and prevent the next crisis, and brings transparency and accountability to exotic instruments such as derivatives. The following is a summary of the many provisions agreed to during the House-Senate conference last week. … Continue Reading


June 21, 2010

DODD, BERMAN STATEMENT ON IRAN SANCTIONS CONFERENCE REPORT AGREEMENT

WASHINGTON -- Today Senate Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd (D-CT) and House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Howard Berman (D-CA), Conference Co-chairs for the bill to strengthen Iran sanctions, announced they had reached an agreement on a draft joint text. The text will now be submitted to other Conferees for review. The bill will equip President Obama with a full range of tools to deal with the threats posed by Iran. It will impose new sanctions on businesses involved in supplying… Continue Reading


June 18, 2010

DEMOCRATS BRAZENLY OPPOSE BETTER CAPITAL STANDARDS

WASHINGTON, DC, Friday, June 18, 2010 -- U.S. Senator Richard Shelby (R-Ala.), ranking Republican on the Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee, today released a statement regarding Senate Democrats' opposition to an amendment related to capital standards that Republicans offered yesterday evening during the financial reform conference committee proceedings. A major contributor to the recent financial crisis was federal financial regulators' lack of diligence, coordination and fores… Continue Reading


June 18, 2010

CHAIRMEN FRANK, DODD ANNOUNCE TUESDAY CONFERENCE SCHEDULE

Washington, DC - Today, Chairman Frank and Chairman Dodd announced that the House-Senate Conference will meet at noon on Tuesday, June 22, in Room SD-106, Dirksen Senate Office Building, to consider the following issues: Tuesday, June 22 · Pending offers and Counter-offers from Week One · Consumer Financial Protection-CFPA/CFPB-title 10 of base text · Predatory lending-title 14 of base text · … Continue Reading


June 17, 2010

THE WALL STREET REFORM BILL: CONFERENCE UPDATE

Washington - Today House and Senate conferees again met on the bill to bring accountability to Wall Street. The bill creates a new consumer financial protection watchdog, ends too big to fail bailouts, sets up an early warning system to predict and prevent the next crisis, and brings transparency and accountability to exotic instruments such as derivatives. A list of House and Senate offers and counter offers can be found by clicking here. But it is also important to remember the ma… Continue Reading


June 15, 2010

CHAIRMEN FRANK, DODD ANNOUNCE UPCOMING CONFERENCE SCHEDULE

Washington, DC - Today, Chairman Frank and Chairman Dodd announced that the House-Senate Conference will meet on Wednesday, June 16, at 11 a.m. to consider the following titles: Wednesday, June 16 · Title 9, subtitles A, B, F, H, I and J of base text: Investor protection/regulatory improvements · Title 9, subtitles E and G of base text: Executive compensation/corporate governance · Title 11 of base text: … Continue Reading


June 10, 2010

DODD, FRANK ANNOUNCE CONFERENCE SCHEDULE FOR TUESDAY

Washington, DC - Today, Chairman Dodd and Chairman Frank announced the House-Senate Conference will meet on Tuesday, June 15, at 11 a.m. to consider the following titles: · Title 3 of base text: OTS/OCC merger; thrift charter · Title 5 of base text: Insurance · Title 4 of base text: Private Funds · Title 9, subtitle C of base text: credit rating agencies For more information on these titles, click here. ###… Continue Reading


June 10, 2010

DODD STATEMENT ON WALL STREET REFROM

Washington - Today, Senate Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd delivered the following statement at the House and Senate conference on the bill to bring accountability to Wall Street. Below is his statement as prepared for delivery: "Thank you Chairman Frank. "And thank you to my fellow conferees for the tremendous work you have done over these many months as we try to tackle the tough questions of how to create a financial regulatory structure that will protect our economy for y… Continue Reading


June 9, 2010

HOUSE-SENATE CONFERENCE ON FINANCIAL REFORM TO BEGIN TOMORROW

Washington, DC - Tomorrow, the House-Senate Conference on the Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act will convene to begin its work on the most sweeping reforms to the financial regulatory system since the Great Depression. Conferees will meet tomorrow in an open, public televised meeting to give their opening statements. A more detailed schedule of subsequent meetings will be released at a later date. Due to high demand and limited seating in the committee room, media will be limite… Continue Reading


June 9, 2010

DODD STATEMENT: HEARING ON LIVABLE COMMUNITIES ACT

Dodd Hears from Local Experts on Community Development Aimed at Creating Better Places to Live, Work, and Raise Families WASHINGTON - Today Senate Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd (D-CT) held a hearing with local officials to discuss his Livable Communities Act (S. 1619) to improve the coordination between our housing, community development, transportation, energy, and environmental policies to help create better places to live, work and raise families. The committee heard testim… Continue Reading


May 25, 2010

DODD, BERMAN ON IRAN SANCTIONS CONFERENCE REPORT

WASHINGTON -- Today Senate Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd (D-CT) and House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Howard Berman (D-CA), co-chairs of the Iran sanctions conference, released the following statement regarding the anticipated timing of final action on an Iran sanctions conference report on H.R. 2194. "The draft United Nations Security Council resolution offered last week by the five permanent members of that body proposes useful additional mandatory sanctions on Iran. Even mo… Continue Reading


May 25, 2010

DODD INTRODUCES EMERGENCY TRANSIT FUNDING AUTHORIZATION BILL

WASHINGTON -- Today Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee Chairman Chris Dodd (D-CT) along with Senators Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Dick Durbin (D-IL), Charles Schumer (D-NY), Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ), Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Jack Reed (D-RI), and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) introduced a bill to authorize emergency funding for transit agencies to help reverse fare increases and service cuts. "While families continue to struggle to make ends meet the last thing we should do is make it… Continue Reading

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