So much for large scale regulatory reform!

Speaking before the US Chamber of Commerce (that unabashed bastion of capitalism in DC), Senate Banking Committee Chairman Mike Crapo acknowledged the obvious and said that in the near term a broad based overhaul of Dodd-Frank is out of the question. He is quoted in Today’s American Banker as saying “In the near term, we are working to identify bills with bipartisan support that we can move quickly and put points on the board.”

Maybe it is the gloom of a dreary late season wintery mix but this doesn’t sound like the type of agenda that would include scaling back the CFPB’s power, but hopefully I can be proved wrong. On the bright side, he did predict that he and Senator Sherrod Brown, of Ohio would find common ground in areas where they can move pieces of legislation quickly.

What really bothers me is the Senator’s comments, as paraphrased in the article, that larger regulatory changes will have to come from the independent agencies, which will eventually be headed by Trump appointees.

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