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What Dodd-Frank rollback could mean for energy sector, climate change

June 10, 2017/

While everyone was watching James Comey’s testimony in the Senate on Thursday, the other side of the Capitol was more quietly (but also consequentially) passing a piece of legislation that would have far-reaching financial implications if it becomes law.

The bill is called the Financial Choice Act, and it passed the GOP-led House in a 233-to-186 party-line vote. The legislation is designed to dismantle much of the 2010 Dodd-Frank law signed by President Barack Obama and passed by a Democrat-controlled Congress in the wake of the financial crisis.

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