On Dodd-Frank, Democrats – including Obama – are apparently of two minds on the extent to which they should stick up for their own reforms. In December, the White House agreed to a Republican proposal to repeal a provision of Dodd-Frank that would have limited the risk-taking of the country’s largest banks (in fact, the proposal’s language was drafted by Citigroup).
在多德-弗兰克法案上，民主党人——包括奥巴马——显然在究竟应在何种程度上坚持自身提出的改革方面存在着分歧。在去年12月，白宫同意了共和党人提出的一项提案，将法案中一条关于限制各美国银行巨头过度投机行为的条款废除（而该提案的文本正是由花旗银行执笔的）