Posted on 11/06/2009 11:10:20 AM PST by kingattax
(Newser) – A Senate bill that would fundamentally change the structure of banking regulation is headed for a clash with both the House and the White House.
Christopher Dodd is readying a proposal to strip the Fed and FDIC of almost all bank-supervision powers, creating in their place a new agency that would supervise all banks and bank-holding companies, the Wall Street Journal reports.
Sen Dodd's plan will have no shortage of enemies: Likely to face GOP opposition within the Senate, the proposal is also at odds with House plans to expand the role of the Fed, and is expected to draw ire from the banking industry, which opposes regulator consolidation.
Fed and FDIC officials have strongly resisted bids to reduce their powers, and the White House earlier rejected merging of bank regulators as politically unrealistic.
A complete and total, obvious fakeout. A bill known o be doomed from the start, advanced only for the purpose of saying “See? I tried”.
This fool's dance should be no surprise. Dodd is in deep trouble at home and is desperately spinning boob bait for the bubbas in the hopes something get him out of the PR hole he is in.
Memo to Chris: how about we just enforce the laws currently on the books?
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