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Lawmakers have backed away from a proposal that would have weakened the Securities and Exchange Commission's oversight of accounting standard-setters. Reps.

An amendment to the in-progress Financial Stability Improvement Act would allow financial regulators to review accounting standards but give them no final authority.

Throughout the semester, I attempted to give a voice to progressive Oklahomans. Living in our great state as a liberal Democrat is sort of like living in a sorority house and not being thoroughly obsessed with "Twilight." Just like the sorority girl who would rather drink Blue Moon than watch "New Moon," progressive Oklahomans are constantly ...

Here's how Oklahoma senators and House of Representatives members voted on key bills and amendments last week.

Faced with the prospect of losing key oversight powers, members of the House Agriculture Committee and regulators Tuesday blasted an Obama administration proposal to overhaul financial rules.

Here's how Oklahoma senators and House of Representatives members voted on key bills and amendments last week.

New figures from the watchdog group Center for Responsive Politics show 44% of the nation's members of congress are millionaires and four of them are Okahomans in the U.S. Senate and U.S. House.

Here's how Oklahoma senators and House of Representatives members voted on key bills and amendments last week.

During a rare Saturday night session, the U.S. House probably will pass its version of a controversial health care reform bill, said U.S. Rep.

The Center for Audit Quality and other influential organizations are asking leaders of the House Financial Services Committee to safeguard the role of the SEC in overseeing the Financial Accounting Standards Board.

Oklahoma Republicans suggest the GOP victories for governor's races in Virginia and New Jersey might be a sign of what's to come in Oklahoma and other states.

Here's how Oklahoma senators and House of Representatives members voted on key bills and amendments last week.

Oklahoma Republican Congressman Tom Cole says the House Democratic health care reform bill unveiled Thursday will raise taxes, increase costs, restrict coverage and shift massive expenses to state governments who can't afford it.

The committee's action 'is the next part of the process - most assuredly not the final step - in bringing a regulatory structure to an unregulated market.' Following deals and compromises that ended only shortly before the hearing began, the House Agriculture Committee last week passed HR 3795 - more commonly known as the 'derivatives oversight' ...

Washington-The House Agriculture Committee approved Oct. 21 legislation bringing accountability to derivatives markets, bringing unregulated over-the-counter products, such as swaps, under federal oversight for the first time.

The House Agriculture Committee approved a bill on Wednesday for federal regulation of over-the-counter derivatives -- an Obama administration goal -- that would require many swaps to go through clearinghouses.

The campaign of U.S. Rep. John Sullivan, R-Okla., whose fundraising had lagged earlier this year, set the pace for incumbents in the state's House delegation, according to reports recently filed with the Federal Election Commission.

Oklahoma has received negative worldwide attention for its controversial new anti-privacy law, which takes effect on November 1, 2009.

Here's how Oklahoma senators and House of Representatives members voted on key bills and amendments last week.

Recently, the Council on Food, Agricultural and Resource Economics recognized Congressman Chet Edwards and Congressman Frank Lucas as the "2009 Friends of C-FARE and Agricultural Economics" for their appreciation of the application of economics to policy issues involving agriculture, natural resources, food and nutrition topics, at a reception held ...