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  1. Big lobbyists battle for big and small clients over Dodd Frank fee cap

    By Ryan Sibley Feb 11, 2011 11:07 a.m.

    As the House Committee on Financial Services readies for next week's hearings to discuss new regulations for the banking industry, lobbyists lined up to battle over the changes, extending a battle between small banks, big banks and big retailers.

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  2. Business community has its guns aimed at the environment, financial reforms

    By Anupama Narayanswamy Feb 9, 2011 12:51 p.m.

    In a bid to roll back laws and regulations, some passed and some proposed, in the last two years, business conglomerates have targeted a handful of federal agencies -- with the Environmental Protection Agency receiving the bulk of the attention -- in reply to a request by Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., calling for industry feedback on which rules the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee should investigate.

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  3. Conflict minerals comment period delayed under corporate and congressional pressure

    By Lindsay Young Feb 7, 2011 1:49 p.m.

    After a powerful committee chairman and several corporate interests wrote to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) requesting an extension of the comment period for the agency’s proposed regulations requiring that companies disclose when they use “conflict minerals,” the agency granted the request.

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  4. Financial interests hiring lobbyists

    By Nancy Watzman Feb 1, 2011 11:58 a.m.

    Even as the new House GOP majority is taking aim at the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act by pulling at the agencies’ purse strings, financial interests continue to jockey for favor, hiring key lobbying firms.

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  5. Key GOP lawmaker wants to stop financial regulations

    By Nancy Watzman Dec 22, 2010 1:56 p.m.

    Reuters reports that Rep. Randy Neugebauer, R-Texas, the incoming chairman of the Financial Services Oversight and Investigations subcommittee, wants to delay implementation of the new financial reform law for a year "so regulators have more time to understand the impact of rules they are writing."

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