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U.S. House passes “Citibill” to partially roll back the Dodd-Frank Reform Act

Once again, some­thing is rot­ten in the peo­ple’s House. Ear­li­er today, the Repub­­li­­can-con­trolled U.S. House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives vot­ed two hun­dred and nine­­ty-two to one hun­dred and twen­­ty-two to pass H.R. 992, offi­cial­ly titled the Swaps Reg­u­la­to­ry Improve­ment Act. Like MSNBC’s Chris Hayes, we’re call­ing H.R. 992 Citibill because it was pri­mar­i­ly authored by Cit­i­group lob­by­ists. It […]