Pelosi

nabs bevy of chairmen for conference on Wall Street reform

By Michael O'Brien - 06/09/10 06:19 PM ET

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) named 10 members of the House Financial Services Committee on Wednesday to the conference committee on Wall Street reform.

Pelosi named the 10 members, along with 10 other members from committees of jurisdiction, to the conference on financial regulatory reform.

The House Democratic delegation will be led by Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.), the head of the Financial Services Committee, and five other chairmen: Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin Peterson (D-Minn.), Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Henry Waxman (D-Calif.), Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers (D-Mich.), Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Edolphus Towns (D-N.Y.), and Small Business Committee Chairwoman Nydia Velazquez (D-N.Y.).

"The New Direction Congress is sending a clear message to Wall Street: the party is over,” Pelosi said in a statement. “No longer will big banks be able to gamble with the hard-earned dollars of America’s workers, and no longer will recklessness on Wall Street cause joblessness on Main Street.”

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House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) meanwhile named 11 GOP members to represent Republicans in the conference, including the ranking members of the committees whose chairmen Pelosi nabbed.

Boehner's picks include: Rep. Spencer Bachus (R-Ala.), ranking member on the House Financial Services Committee; Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas), ranking member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee; Rep. Sam Graves (R-Mo.), ranking member of the House Small Business Committee; Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), ranking member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee; Rep. Frank Lucas (R-Okla.), ranking member of the House Agriculture Committee; and Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas), ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee.

“This conference is an opportunity to listen to the American people and work together on commonsense solutions to end the bailouts, reform Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and hold Wall Street accountable for its actions," Boehner said. "I am confident that the Republican conferees will ask the tough questions and serve as strong voices for taxpayers.”

See Pelosi's full list of conferees here. See Boehner's full list here.