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Sample Excerpt

July 2010

The outlines of regulatory overhaul finally took shape during the wee hours of June 25, as Senate and House conferees barely met their self-imposed deadline to have finished legislation on President Barack Obama’s desk by July 4. However, although the House passed the bill on June 30 with a vote of 237-192, the Senate, interrupted by the death of Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W. Va., on June 28, failed to vote on the Dodd-Frank Act before leaving on its week-long July Fourth recess.

Several modifications and additions during the days leading up to June 25 and since will have a profound effect on community banks, for better or worse.