Washington, DC--(ENEWSPF)--December 12, 2014. On Thursday, December 11, Rep. Peter DeFazio (OR-04) released the following statement after voting no on H.R. 83, the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2015, legislation to fund the government through the end of fiscal year 2015.
“Only six years after reckless Wall Street gambling nearly brought the U.S. economy to its knees, some of my colleagues in Congress just voted to give Wall Street an early Christmas present. By repealing a key provision of Dodd-Frank as part of the so-called CROmnibus, this Republican-led . . .