House Republicans Continue Effort To Undermine Wall Street Reform By Cutting Regulators’ Budgets

House Republicans Continue Effort To Undermine Wall Street Reform By Cutting Regulators’ Budgets: House Republicans on the Appropriations Committee yesterday released their 2013 budget for the nation’s financial market regulators. Under the GOP plan, both the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission would see their budgets finalized at levels far below President Obama’s request, with the CFTC even seeing a real reduction in dollars [...]/p