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  • A Peek Inside JPMorgan's World (they're pre-empting already)

    12/14/2010 1:49:19 PM PST · by bronxville · 9 replies
    The Public Center of Integrity ^ | November 10th, 2010 | Julie Vorman
    GOP-Led House May Underfund Staff Required by Dodd-Frank Law Reform watchers should make time to read an internal memo issued by Wall Street bank JPMorgan that says House Republicans may “seek to use the appropriations process to slow implementation of Dodd-Frank by underfunding the new federal agency staff needed to get those programs off the ground. This is already happening, as Congress was unable to increase funding for new positions at the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission in the recently passed Continuing Resolution, which — according to those agencies — set back enforcement of key...
  • Campaign Finance Reform's "NonPartisan" Democrat

    03/20/2002 8:39:37 AM PST · by edmundburk · 2 replies · 202+ views
    Ellen Miller was instrumental in The Center for Responsive Politics and Public Campaign, two good-government organizations that billed themselves as nonpartisan research groups investigating the influence of money in politics. Apparently Miller's retirement from those groups has allowed her to let her Democratic hair down. Here's the first sentence of her Prospect article roasting Shays-Meehan as wimpy, and worse, hurting Democrats: "What a cruel twist of fate: campaign finance reform that benefits Republicans and big money."So if reform ends up benefiting Republicans, it becomes by definition bad? So much for that nonpartisan balloon juice, then. If CFR is really just...