{"id":5255,"date":"2010-04-21T12:23:08","date_gmt":"2010-04-21T17:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=5255"},"modified":"2011-01-20T14:38:15","modified_gmt":"2011-01-20T19:38:15","slug":"gop-changing-tone-on-financial-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2010\/04\/21\/gop-changing-tone-on-financial-reform\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP changing tone on financial reform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-5256\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2010\/04\/Capitol-building-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Capitol building\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>On the heels of the SEC suing Goldman Sachs for fraud, key Senate Republicans are <a title=\"easing up\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/idUSN2011089420100420\" target=\"_blank\">easing up <\/a>on earlier harsh criticism of financial regulatory reform bills offered by the Democrats.\u00a0 Political science Professor <a title=\"Graham Wilson\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/polisci\/people\/faculty\/professorgrahamwilson\/\" target=\"_blank\">Graham Wilson<\/a>, author of &#8220;<em>Only in America? American Politics in Comparative Perspective<\/em>,&#8221; says the shift makes political sense.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The political costs of being seen to block reforming the financial system that almost wrecked us could be very high.\u00a0 In fact, it is a tribute to the bizarre nature of the U.S. Senate that two years after the crisis that harmed millions around the world struck it is still a challenge to get any reforms enacted.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Contact Graham Wilson, 617-353-2540, <a href=\"mailto:gkwilson@bu.edu\">gkwilson@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the heels of the SEC suing Goldman Sachs for fraud, key Senate Republicans are easing up on earlier harsh criticism of financial regulatory reform bills offered by the Democrats.\u00a0 Political science Professor Graham Wilson, author of &#8220;Only in America? American Politics in Comparative Perspective,&#8221; says the shift makes political sense. &#8220;The political costs of [&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":[2484,1286,2690,2711,561],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5255"}],"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=5255"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5259,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5255\/revisions\/5259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}