Republicans, 202 7488001. Independencts, 202 7458002. You can also find us on facebook and twitter. You can send us an email at journal cspan. Org. The dodd frank act was named after its authors, and senator chris dodd and barney frank. It was a massive bill that required federal agencies to write hundreds of new rules. Here are some of the things that the dodd frank act did. It was signed into law by president obama on july joint first, 2010. It created the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. It attempted to an too big to fail bailouts of Financial Firms. In eliminated loopholes of financial products, providing shareholders a say on executive compensation, and enforce regulations on the books. Here are some polls that show just exactly the scope of this bill. A summary of the bill by a law firm shows that the bill was 22,290 six pages long. It has had 119 congressional hearings, and there have been 139 bills issued in congress to amend or repeal the act. The stats also give you a se
Airline harrison this sunday night at 8 00 p. M. Eastern on cspans original series, first ladies influence and image. Examining the public and private lives of the women who fill position of first lady and their influence on the presidency from Martha Washington to michelle obama. Sundays at 8 00 p. M. Eastern on american tv, on cspan3. Coming up next on cspan, from washington journal, a look at the dotfrank financial regulatory law on its fifth anniversary. That is followed by a discussion on u. S. Drug policy. Later, a discussion with transportation secretary anthony foxx at the Christian Science monitor. We are continuing our discussion about wall street reform and the dotfrank act and we are joined by a financial regulations Research Fellow at the Heritage Foundation and also with julio gordon, a senior director of housing at the center for american products. Make you both so much for being here. I would like to start with a question, very broad for both of you. How effective has.
Million families that are using these vouchers. I think the variability is a reflection of the fact that somehow the agencies are smaller, they have less of a case load, it may be easier for them to stay on top of these things. Host we talked about the Obama Administration requesting 220 million for the housing choice program. How has that been received on capitol hill . What is the politics surrounding that budget request . Guest that would be a large amount of money that this program has had in a while. The number of families that have been served by the program was cut down significantly by the sequester and is only just now getting back up to the number that it had been. The idea of spending more money i think within the broader context, a lot of antipoverty programs are a hard sell in washington right now, and this is one of them. The Section Eight Program in particular has the stigma attached that a lot of the people that benefit from this are just receiving government handouts,
What is not helpful is rhetoric the president has been using comparing republicans in congress over the iran nuclear agreement, to those in tehran dealing death to america. My view of this issue is, rather than this kind of christ political rhetoric, we should treat this with the dignity it deserves. What i have sent in the senate is it we are going to handle this debate in the following way. We will try to reach an agreement to have a specified amount of time to talk about it. Im going to ask every senator to be at their desk actually listening to what others are saying. Each senator will get an opportunity to speak and actually be listened to by other senators. This is an extraordinarily important issue for our country not only now, but in the future. Remember, the president will be gone in a year and a half, and the rest of us will be living with the consequences of this extraordinary agreement, which certainly has transformed the middle east. It certainly has. We are now entering i
Project of reform. Mr. Trudeau doesnt want to have a referendum on reform. Stephen harper wants in he once any change to go through a reform process. Mr. Harper we have a westminster system. Voters are able to elect governments, not coalitions later. Canadians this has come up before. It was the subject of a referendum in ontario and Prince Edward island. I have not found canadians who want to make this change. In fact, when asked, they reject it. Lets play under the rules. Mr. Wells when he brought in his unfair elections act, he refused to talk to canadians. We stood up strong and opposed it. We shut down travel by parliamentarian committees. We used every tool to stop him from walking away. He has made it harder for whole classes of canadians to vote. That is not just our opinion. All of the experts who have looked at his unfair elections act has said the same thing have said the same thing. Mr. Harper, if you have become such a keen fan making sure no single party can change the ru