WASHINGTON, Jan. 12 (UPI) -- Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin plans to use his position on an appropriations subcommittee to keep Republicans from gutting financial reform, aides say.
Backers of Dodd-Frank, the Wall Street reform, tell The Hill Durbin, D-Ill., will take over the issue from former Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd, D-Conn., who retired.