{"id":4799,"date":"2010-03-17T11:31:09","date_gmt":"2010-03-17T16:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=4799"},"modified":"2011-01-20T15:15:36","modified_gmt":"2011-01-20T20:15:36","slug":"financial-reg-reform-bill-under-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2010\/03\/17\/financial-reg-reform-bill-under-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Financial reg-reform bill under fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-4800\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2010\/03\/Christopher-Dodd-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"APTOPIX Financial Overhaul\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>Financial institutions and their allies are <a title=\"gearing up\" href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5g7ffRdswXTlfgaQS0FCOZmrvbwcAD9EG1D400\" target=\"_blank\">gearing up <\/a>their\u00a0lobbying effort to weaken Senator Dodd&#8217;s proposed financial regulatory reform bill.\u00a0 Law Professor <a title=\"Cornelius Hurley\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/faculty\/profiles\/bios\/banking\/hurley.html\" target=\"_blank\">Cornelius Hurley<\/a>, director of the <a title=\"Morin Center for Banking and Financial Law\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/morincenter\/\" target=\"_blank\">Morin Center for Banking and Financial Law <\/a>and a former counsel to the Fed Board of Governors, says\u00a0the proposed creation of a separate consumer-protection group within the Fed could be made even stronger.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The better course is to designate by statute one of the seven Federal Reserve governors as the \u2018Consumer Affairs Governor\u2019 and charge that person with clear responsibility for ensuring that the many consumer statutes the Fed has responsibility for are aggressively enforced.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Contact Cornelius Hurley, 617-353-5427, <a href=\"mailto:ckhurley@bu.edu\">ckhurley@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Financial institutions and their allies are gearing up their\u00a0lobbying effort to weaken Senator Dodd&#8217;s proposed financial regulatory reform bill.\u00a0 Law Professor Cornelius Hurley, director of the Morin Center for Banking and Financial Law and a former counsel to the Fed Board of Governors, says\u00a0the proposed creation of a separate consumer-protection group within the Fed could [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4491],"tags":[2484,577,1286],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4799"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4799"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4805,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4799\/revisions\/4805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}