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    Congress Reaches Agreement on Financial Reform

    President Obama is in Toronto for the latest G-20 summit, and some members of Congress stayed up all night to give him a kind of departing gift. It's final approval of finance reform by a joint committee, and the President was glad to see it . Kevin Hall is national economics correspondent for the McClatchy Newspapers .

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    By Warren Olney • May 12, 2014 • 1 min read

    President Obama is in Toronto for the latest G-20 summit, and some members of Congress stayed up all night to give him a kind of departing gift. It's final approval of finance reform by a joint committee, and the President was glad to see it. Kevin Hall is national economics correspondent for the McClatchy Newspapers.

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      Warren Olney

      former KCRW broadcaster

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      Kevin Hall

      McClatchy Newspapers

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    The full episode

    1 of 3
    The Oil Industry Rolls On...
    1. 0:00Congress Reaches Agreement on Financial ReformYou’re reading this
    2. 7:46The Oil Industry and the Government
    3. 44:59Nutrition Group Takes Aim at Happy Meal Toys
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