Bank bill clears House, Senate looms

[cal04]

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0610/39228.html

The House approved sweeping Wall Street reforms Wednesday, setting the stage for a final showdown in the Senate.

The vote was 237 to 192, largely along party lines.

In the Senate, an extraordinary 11th-hour maneuver by Democrats to kill a controversial bank fee opposed by key Republican senators got mixed results. And with the legislation’s final fate uncertain, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) announced he won’t take it up until after next week’s July 4th recess.

His decision buys Democrats time to wait for a Democratic replacement to fill the seat left vacant by the death Monday of Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.) and to continue courting several fence-sitting Republicans.


Financial reform passes House
by Joan McCarter
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/6/30/880671/-Financial-reform-passes-House
The actual roll call vote will be at that link. Castle, Jones, Cao voted with the Dems for final passage.
updated with roll call vote :http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2010/roll413.xml


An announcement from Speaker Pelosi:

http://twitter.com/SpeakerPelosi/status/17447633795

[msongs]

1. stupid harry, cancel the 4th recess until the people's business is done nt

[DCBob]

2. Harry's being prudent.. probably not sure he has the votes..

with Brown, Snowe and Collins all not yet declaring support, Harry is doing the right thing.

[Vincardog]

3. Second that: cancel the 4th recess until the people's business is done nt

[tritsofme]

4. Mostly a numbers game here.

We need the new WV senator to be there.