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Dodd financial reform to build off Obama base-aide

Thu Nov 5, 2009 3:17pm EST

WASHINGTON, Nov 5 (Reuters) - A comprehensive financial regulation reform bill to be released within days by Senator Christopher Dodd will be based on the Obama administration's bill, with key differences, a Dodd aide said on Thursday.

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"We will use the administration's proposal as base text," Kirstin Brost, spokeswoman for Dodd, the Democratic chairman of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee, told Reuters. (Reporting by Kevin Drawbaugh; Editing by James Dalgleish)



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