House votes to change ‘too-big-to-fail’ designation system
H.R. 4061, the Financial Stability Oversight Council Improvement Act of 2017 bill, receives many votes from Democrats.
Congress could be closer to changing a financial services company risk management program that it developed in the wake of the Great Recession.
Members of the U.S. House on Wednesday voted 297-121 to pass H.R. 4061, the Financial Stability Oversight Council Improvement Act bill.
All but one of the 232 Republicans who voted supported the bill.
The bill also received an unusually high level of support from House Democrats: 66 of the 186 Democrats who participated voted for the bill.
Getting the support of one-third of the Democrats in the Senate would give supporters a good shot at getting the bill through the Senate under “regular order” rules. Republicans hold 51 seats in the Senate. Under regular order rules In the Senate, an ordinary bill needs 60 votes to reach the Senate floor.
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