It is likely that some countries will seek to water down the impact of these reforms.
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Their target is the law that created the CFPB, which they want to water down.
And continuing to water down the product in this age of austerity could amount to slow suicide.
For four years the financial industry has successfully lobbied to water down and delay the new regulations.
Speaker Gingrich wants to water down the bill, and House Republicans -- there have been those suggestions.
Last week , the EU agreed to water down proposals for a radical overhaul of data privacy regulation.
The findings were published amid concerns that the coalition was planning to water down its plans for the bank.
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He got her to water down the idea that private bondholders must take a hit whenever countries get into trouble.
In one key area the banking industry has succeeded in getting the Treasury to water down one of Vickers' recommendations, he said.
There is an army of lobbyists and lawyers right now working to water down the protections and the reforms that we passed.
He has already begun to water down the Hartz commission's labour-market proposals, his government's supposed flagship reform, in response to pressure from the unions.
However the proposed law has been subject to dispute between the Council and Parliament, with the Council seeking to water down rights for spouses.
And ministers can be induced to water down bans on smoking in public places by decreeing more areas where people can still puff away.
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The Europeans, like their American counterparts, want to water down a provision that forces bank holding companies to set aside more capital for risky activities.
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Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, an independent journalist who was one of the investigators, says a lobby of big publishers pushed the Press Council to water down the report.
His greatest achievement in opposition was to get the party to ditch its historic commitment to nationalisation, and to water down its traditional links with the unions.
During years of discussions and five weeks of intensive talks in Rome, the United States had sought to water down a treaty setting up an international criminal court.
Critics see the move, on which the government is consulting until April 20th, as another Conservative-led bid to water down employment rights in the name of boosting efficiency.
Another proposed law would seek to water down the legal fraternity's control over judicial appointments by making a slight change in the composition of the Judicial Appointments Committee.
Mr Cameron's speech is being seen as an attempt to reconnect with disgruntled Tory backbenchers who have accused him of allowing the Liberal Democrats to water down traditional party values.
In the days that followed, the ECB lobbied hard behind the scenes to water down the Deauville pact, arguing that it would lock Europe's weakest governments out of capital markets.
Mr Clegg helped to water down the planned overhaul of the NHS. He can look forward to a less rocky party conference in the autumn than he was once anticipating.
Documents leaked last year suggested that Mr Brown wanted to water down Britain's commitment to a European target that 20% of all energy used must come from renewables by 2020.
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The group's global programmes director, Christiaan Poortman, said he hoped the weight of the financial crisis would not lead policymakers at the G20 summit in Pittsburgh to water down corruption-fighting efforts.
The prime minister, Yasuo Fukuda, will come under huge pressure to water down the ideas before he submits them to the Diet (parliament), as part of an economic plan, in June.
"You do not know if it is a lobbyist or a businessman or who it is, " he said on the House floor, in a bid to water down new restrictions on gifts to House members.
However, the government does not have the necessary two-thirds majority needed to override a presidential veto, and thus may have to water down initiatives in order to garner enough support to pass its pro-business policies.
Republicans blocked that because they want to water down Wall Street reforms, reforms that were put in place to help prevent the kind of financial crisis that almost tipped the global economy into a depression.
Bank lobby groups will try to water down the consumer agency's powers and to persuade lawmakers that higher capital requirements will curb lending to hard-working Americans (and put the industry at a disadvantage to international rivals).
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