Democrats bid to slow Dodd-Frank reform
Also testifying in favor of the bill were Hester Peirce, senior research fellow at the conservative Mercatus Center at George Mason University; and Alex Pollock, senior fellow at the conservative R Street Institute.
The conservative witnesses were tempered by testimony by Michael Barr, former undersecretary of the Treasury Department who now serves as a professor at University of Michigan Law School, and Lisa Cook, associate professor of Economics and International Relations at Michigan State University, who served on President Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers.
