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"60 Minutes" challenged Nancy Pelosi on her conflict of interest while Speaker and facilitating financial reform while being involved with credit card companies.

Time to Move Past Debate On Dodd-Frank Law: FDIC's Bair Published: Thursday, 13 Jan 2011 | 10:32 AM ET By: Michelle Lodge CNBC.com Writer Even with the Republicans in control of the House, major changes in the Dodd-Frank financial overhaul law are unlikely and it's time for the country "to get on with it," Sheila Bair, chairwoman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, told CNBC Thursday. “Dodd-Frank gives the regulators a lot of tools to implement them [changes], and we are doing that in a balanced way,” said Bair, speaking from the Small Business Forum in Washington DC, a co-partnership...

GOP’s Bachmann seeks to repeal Dodd-Frank…completely. While some Republicans are seeking to repeal controversial aspects of a recently approved financial crisis-response Dodd-Frank Act, Rep. Michele Bachmann announced her efforts on Thursday to axe the law completely. “I’m pleased to offer a full repeal of the job-killing Dodd-Frank financial regulatory bill,” the Minnesota Republican said after introducing a bill that would do just that. “Dodd-Frank grossly expanded the federal government beyond its jurisdictional boundaries. It gave Washington bureaucrats the power to interpret and enforce the legislation with little oversight.”

Senator Scott Brown is pretty confused as to why everyone is not on board Obama's government takeover of Wall Street... and pretty much all sectors of the financial industry. Therefore, he intends to upload the bill ("when computers get back up") and inform and educate all you big dummies. Tip: If you don't want to listen to Brown's spin, let feed load to 12:45, then fast forward to around 11:45 where he takes his shots at not-yet-informed critics and national talk show hosts who are 'not dealing in facts.' PS - Dan Rea is a big lib. Hence his adoration...

I think I am beginning to discover why so many in the past and presumably why SO MANY MORE going forward will seek to do business with CASH only customers (albeit, I dont' agree with this) and totally bypass the gov's effort to help the small guy and gal.

It was a mere few months ago that we were rooting the state of Massachusetts on towards electing Scott Brown. We sat on the edge of our seats as the votes came in and we rejoiced for days when we realized that Republican Scott Brown had taken what was known as “Kennedy’s Seat” and made it into the “People’s Seat.” How much can change in such a short time! I’m increasingly unimpressed by this man. He caved, along with three other moderate Republicans (otherwise known as roadkill), and voted for this disasterous financial regulation bill. We are reading that he...

Setting legislative priori ties has been one of the chief tasks of American presidents for the past century. Sometimes, they concentrate on changing public policy. At other times, they highlight issues for political reasons, with an eye to the next election. In his first 14 months in office, Barack Obama worked to change public policy, with partial success. He jammed through the stimulus package in February 2009 and health-care legislation in March 2010 on party-line votes. But he paid curiously little attention to the substance of the legislation. One-third of the stimulus money went to state and local governments --...

... this is no hoax. this is real and it doesn't get any better than this. the evidence is attached this post ... ... the corrupt british columbia government is a fascist regime infested with crooks top to bottom. i have concrete, tangible evidence that proves beyond any doubt that british columbia's finance minister takes illegal bribe kickbacks when the accounting/consulting firm pricewaterhousecoopers inc. is appointed by the supreme court of british columbia to oversee third-party assets in civil disputes ... ... see the evidence on the web at this address: http://www.callumhouston.com/FinanceMinisterTakesIllegalKickbacksFromPwC.html ... the government of british columbia is sacked...

It's pretty obvious that oftentimes the media and the Democratic Party work in concert to marginalize opposition of a common goal. ABC's George Stephanopoulos working with White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel was just one example. The question is, how far will the media and Democrats take it? According to Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., if the passage of ObamaCare is evidence, they're willing to take it to achieve Draconian financial regulation and ultimate censorship of the Internet. On his April 19 Fox News Channel program, host Sean Hannity asked Bachmann if there were a double standard, or a coordinated...

Two Federal Reserve bosses -- one present and one past -- yesterday emerged the big winners in Senate Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd's financial regulatory reform bill, with Ben Bernanke set to gain more power while one of his predecessors, Paul Volcker, gains vindication. After a weekend of maneuvering, Dodd yesterday unveiled his highly anticipated legislation, which is not only designed to overhaul the financial system but is also aimed at goosing the Senate into taking action after months of gridlock. As part of Dodd's bill, which was summarized in an 11-page document, the Fed's influence over the financial system...

For the first time since he took over in the White House, Americans don't see eye to eye with President Barack on the important issues, according to a new national poll. But the CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey does indicate that a majority approve of how Obama's handling his duties as president. According to the poll, which was released Tuesday, 48 percent of people questioned say that they agree with Obama on the issues that matter most to them, with 51 percent saying no. That's a switch from April, when 57 percent said they agreed with the president on important issues,...

watch hereDick Morris commentary on Obama's agreement to let the Financial Stability Board regulate US Companies including executive pay