Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act

Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act

Cry Wolf Quotes

The Dodd bill would push the government into the business of dictating the terms at which consumers and businesses can contract. This has nothing to do with protecting consumers and everything to do with replacing consumer preferences with bureaucrats’ choices.

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“Dodd’s Job-killer”, by Mark A. Calabria

If we have higher capital requirements than the rest of the world, now you are just putting the nail in the coffin.

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Jamie Dimon, J.P Morgan CEO

America is sinking under the crushing weight of the ever-expanding regulatory state. This burden threatens to disrupt our recovery, hamper long-term growth, undermine our global competitiveness, and suffocate the entrepreneurial spirit so vital to America's success.

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Thomas Donohue, President of the Chamber of Commerce

Our concern is that ... it will create a one-size-fits-all federal system that will marginalize both directors and shareholders.

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Tom Quaadman, executive director of the Center for Capital Markets Competitiveness at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce