House panel sets fees for big firms, aims to limit Fed

Friday, November 20, 2009

WASHINGTON -- Taking aim at Wall Street and the nation's central bank, a key House committee voted Thursday to assess upfront fees on large financial firms to pay for the failure of their peers and to require a sweeping congressional audit of the secretive Federal Reserve.

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