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Treasury Secretary Geithner asks Congress for financial regulation reform

Recovered from FSRN’s earlier site via the Internet Archive Wayback Machine. The audio here is FSRN’s own production recording. Originally published September 23, 2009.

As the Senate continues to work on healthcare reform, Congress is plagued with another piece of legislation important to Democrats, financial reform. But a packed schedule of healthcare, climate change legislation and funding bills will make it challenging for Congress to get it done. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner told Congress that reforming financial regulation is imperative to stave off more economic disasters.  FSRN’s Leigh Ann Caldwell reports.