Representative Gottheimer Asks Regulators to Deregulate Banks He’s Invested In

At the behest of a big-bank trade group, Gottheimer rallied 16 of his fellow Democrats to join him in urging financial regulators to gut a provision of Dodd-Frank that protects insured depository institutions from risky trading.

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