Congress Loses Faith in the Federal Reserve—Strips Additional Authority from New Financial Regulatio
• American Banking NewsThe Federal Reserve was to play a major role in the Obama Administration’s proposed regulatory overhaul of the financial system, but Congress may stand in the way. Many Senators have lost confidence in the Federal Reserve and are now moving a different route for financial regulatory reform. A new piece of legislation taking shape in the Senate’s Banking Committee would give the Federal Reserve far less authority than the Obama administration had originally thought when it proposed the reforms that it had unveiled in June. Why the change? Senators from both sides of the aisle have lost confidence in the Fed in the wake of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, challenging every from the central bank’s lack of transparency to its ability to protect consumers.
