The amendment-athon on Sen. Chris Dodd’s (D-Conn.) financial regulatory reform bill is coming to a close, with staffers saying only five or so more amendments will receive votes. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has indicated that he plans to file cloture on the bill — ending debate and leading to an up-or-down vote on the measure — tonight.<\/p>\n
But he probably does not have the 60 votes to end debate this go-around. Sen. Byron Dorgan (N.D.), a Democrat, has indicated that he might not vote with Reid, who needs all Democrats to stick together to move forward.<\/span><\/p>\n The Senate just agreed to Sen. Jay Rockefeller’s (D-W.V.) amendment preserving certain regulatory authority for the Federal Trade Commission, passing the measure by voice vote. Starting at 5:30 tonight, the Senate will vote on Sen. Mike Crapo’s (R-Idaho) amendment modifying credit-risk requirements for mortgage assets; Sen. John Cornyn’s (R-Texas) amendment changing some procedures regarding the International Monetary Fund; and Sen. Mark Udall’s (D-Colo.) amendment increasing ease of access to credit scores.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The amendment-athon on Sen. Chris Dodd’s (D-Conn.) financial regulatory reform bill is coming to a close, with staffers saying only five or so more amendments will receive votes. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has indicated that he plans to file cloture on the bill — ending debate and leading to an up-or-down vote on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4376,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-728005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-33o1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4376"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=728005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728005\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=728005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=728005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=728005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}