Financial Reform Bill

Almost two years after the U.S. financial system found itself on the brink of collapse, Congress has reached a compromise on a financial overhaul bill. Congressman Barney Frank helped shepherd the bill through the House. He talks with Tess Vigeland about whether the bill is strong enough to prevent another crisis and what he thinks is missing from it.

Economists are concerned about the effect that unextended unemployment benefits will have on the economy and the unemployed.

Kai Ryssdal talks to Newsweek and Slate.com columnist Dan Gross about what he thinks was done right and wrong on the financial regulation bill negotiated between the House and Senate that will go to vote next week.

Lawmakers in the House and Senate have agreed on a financial reform compromise bill that will go to vote early next week.

Lawmakers want to exempt car dealers who make auto loans from some oversight elements of the new financial reform bill.

House and Senate negotiators are meeting to hash out the last details of their financial reform bill. That's actually no mean feat. Policymakers have been talking about financial reform since pretty much the day Lehman Brothers went under. Nancy Marshall Genzer explains there are a mind-numbing number of details to hash out.

Far removed from the Gulf, Wall Street excesses are also in need of a clean up. Commentator Robert Reich wonders where financial reform is.

Senators and House representatives are close to combining two versions of the financial reform bill ahead of a July 4 deadline.

Big investments banks like Goldman Sachs are keeping an eye on the financial reform bill, but so are small banks. Sarah McCammon reports many community banks are just as worried about how the bill could affect them.