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CMOC Asks Major Businesses to Explain Why They’re Fighting Reform
May 11, 2010 – 11:31 am

As the U.S. Senate debates measures to hold Wall Street accountable for the financial crisis, Commodities Market Oversight Committee (CMOC) supported a letter that hedge-fund manager Michael Masters has written to some of the nation’s …

Oppose Chambliss Amendment #3816; Don’t Weaken Proposed Derivatives Regulations
May 10, 2010 – 9:10 am

Oppose Chambliss Amendment #3816 to Senate bill 3217 which attempts to weaken proposed derivatives regulations

Dear Senator:
The over 250 consumer, employee, investor, community and civil rights groups who are members of Americans for Financial Reform …

AFR: Defeat of Brown-Kaufman Amendment is a Win for the Banks
May 7, 2010 – 9:49 am

AFR: Defeat Of Brown Kaufman Amendment Is A Win For The Banks
Overall Bill Remains Strong But Big Banks Are Working Day And Night To Weaken It
After the first full week of debate on Financial Reform …

Summary of the SAFE Banking Act (a.k.a. Brown-Kaufman amendment)
May 6, 2010 – 8:27 am

Read FAQs about the SAFE Banking Act here – see page 3 (pdf).
Our financial system has become dominated by institutions that are “too big to fail.” Moreover, as FDIC Chairman Bill Isaac has said, they …

CMOC: True Derivatives “End Users” Don’t Need Any More Loopholes
May 5, 2010 – 10:57 am

COMMODITY MARKETS OVERSIGHT COALITION
An Alliance of Derivatives End-Users & Reform Advocates
May 4, 2010
The Honorable Harry Reid
Majority Leader, U.S. Senate
522 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
The Honorable Mitch McConnell
Minority Leader, U.S. Senate
361A Russell Senate Office Building
Washington, …