Regulations Imposed By Wall Street Reform Must Be Enforced, Says Lawmaker

Senator Jack Reed (D-R.I.) says that after Wall Street Reform and Cnsumer Protection Act is officially passed, it’s regulations need to be enforced. (0:26)

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GOP Holding Up Key Debate On Wall Street Reform, Says Senate Democrat

Sen. Tom Udall (D-N.M.) says Tuesday that he does not understand why Republicans are preventing debate from proceeding on debating a Wall Street reform bill making its way through the Senate. (0:20)
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Senate Democrat Lauds Proposed Consumer Protection Agency

Sen. Tom Udall (D-N.M.) says Tuesday that Democrats are hoping to hold Wall Street accountable and put consumers in control by passing a financial regulatory reform bill. Among its provisions, Udall says he likes the fact that the legislation would create a new independent consumer protection agency, saying it will represent a new cop on the beat. (0:37)
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Wall Street Bill Gives New Bailout Powers To The Fed And FDIC, Says Financial Expert

Sam Zamarripa, a co-founder of the group, "Stop Too Big To Fail," tells Talk Radio News Service that financial reform legislation must put a stop to the notion that some financial institutions are “Too Big to Fail.” Real reform, he says, must not create new bailout mechanisms for big banks. (:35)
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Wall Street Bill Would End 'Too Big To Fail,' Says Democrat Kaufman

Sen. Ted Kaufman (D-Del.) says Congress needs to pass strict laws that would bring about the end of banks becoming "too big too fail." (0:16)
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Reform Would Force Banks, Not Taxpayers To Pay For Mistakes, Says Ohio Democrat

Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) says Wednesday that a financial regulatory reform bill moving through the Senate would force banks, not taxpayers, to pay for their mistakes. (0:08)
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Wall Street Threatened Fannie Mae, Says Former Executive

Former Fannie Mae Executive Vice President Robert Levin told the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission that Wall Street posed a financial threat to former mortgage giant Fannie Mae. (0:34)
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Hoyer: Who Will Bailout America?

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) discusses how reckless fiscal policy moved from Main Street, to Wall Street, to Congress, and how this irresponsibility drastically hurt America because everyone, including the government, lived "beyond its means." (0:29)
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Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT.) criticizes Wall Street executives

In a Senate Budget Committee hearing Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT.) criticizes Wall Street executives for creating the economic crisis the U.S. is in. He states that the American people have lost their jobs while the CEO's of the largest institutions who caused this crisis still have theirs. Sanders questions Timothy F. Geithner whether or not these people in the financial institutions be let go and new leadership be brought in. (02:49)
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"Billionaires" urge taxpayers to sign the blank check

In an act of satirical political theater, Billionaires for the Bailout held skits in front several Washington D.C. banks (0:39).
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Dems to Wall Street: Debt does matter

Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) makes a reference to Vice President Dick Cheney's statement "that deficits don't matter." He says that Wall Street must have taken that to heart. (0:41)
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Clinton says we need to shift priorities in the tax code

At the CWA Conference, Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) says when she says solutions, she says, she will rebuild the middle class, and will end 55 billion dollars in tax breaks for oil companies, drug companies, insurance companies, and Wall Street, and will give that money back to hard working middle class families instead. You will get more help with student loans, health care for all, and millions of jobs that cannot be sent overseas because they will be created right here. I will cut middle class taxes, she says, by at least 100 billion dollars a year, and I will let taxes increase on people earning more than $250,000 a year. They have had their run, it's time we shifted our priorities in the tax code. (:50)
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