Brown says he would filibuster financial reform

[HughMoran]

Source: Boston Globe

By Matt Viser, Globe Staff

WASHINGTON – Senator Scott Brown said this morning that he would join a Republican filibuster to block a package of financial overhauls from coming to a vote in the Senate, potentially providing GOP allies with the ammunition they need to stifle the Democrats’ plan designed to crack down on policies that lead to the economic meltdown.

Brown, in his first Sunday morning talk show appearance since being sworn in three months ago, also accused President Obama of playing politics with the issue and said that Democrats were not doing enough to work with the other side of the aisle.

“I think the president's political arm is now taking over this debate,” Brown said during a 13-minute interview on CBS’ “Face the Nation.” “And it's unfortunate because I, like many others in my state and throughout the country, want banks to be banks. They don't want them to be casinos. They don't want them to take risky bets on our money.”

Brown also said the bill would harm some Massachusetts companies because the “web” of new investing rules would sweep up insurance firms Liberty Mutual and MassMutual. Without elaborating or explaining where he got the estimate, Brown also claimed the bill would cost 25,000 to 35,000 jobs.


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He pulled this one out of his ass. Say good bye to reelection in Massachusetts, ass hole...