Financial Reform Report Card

What Side is Your Senator On?


By DAVID DeGRAW
CounterPunch
May 12, 2010


The financial reform process is providing definitive proof as to what the true priorities are for each Senator. The two most important amendments thus far have been the Brown-Kaufman (Democratic) amendment to break up the big banks (Voted down 61-33), and the Vitter (Republican) amendment to audit the Federal Reserve (Voted down 62-37). The Sanders amendment to “auditâ€