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** FILE ** Sen. Christopher J. Dodd, Connecticut Democrat, who is chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, announces a financial reform package on Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2009, during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
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A 2010 Ford Fusion sedan is reflected in the chrome grille of an 2010 Edge at a Ford dealership in Denver on Sunday, Nov. 1, 2009. Ford Motor Co. earned $1 billion in the third quarter, fueled by U.S. market share gains, cost cuts and the government's Cash for Clunkers rebates. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
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**FILE** In this photo from Jan. 13, 2009, Pfizer employees walk past a sign at the Pfizer Global Research and Development facility in Groton, Conn. Pfizer Inc., the world's biggest drug company, on Nov. 9 said it is closing six of its 20 research facilities, reorganizing others, and cutting the jobs of roughly 15 percent of its scientists and support staff. (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** The new design of the $100 bill was unveiled at the Treasury Department in Washington on Wednesday, April 21, 2010. The folks who print America's money did a high-tech makeover of the bill as part of an effort to stay ahead of counterfeiters as technology becomes more sophisticated and more dollars flow overseas, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke said. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
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**FILE** In this photo from Nov. 17, 2009, Brian Moynihan, Bank of America's president of consumer and small business banking, testifies on Capitol Hill before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing on the role of the federal government in the Bank of America-Merrill Lynch merger. (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** Bradley Birkenfeld, a whistle-blower in the tax evasion case against Swiss bank UBS AG, holds a news conference outside the Schuylkill County Federal Correctional Institution in Minersville, Pa., Friday, Jan. 8, 2010, before reporting to the federal prison. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
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** FILE ** Trays of printed Social Security checks wait to be mailed from the U.S. Treasury's Financial Management Services facility in Philadelphia in 2005. (Associated Press)
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Workers are pictured on the assembly line of Opel's Insignia model at the company's plant in Ruesselsheim, Germany, in 2008. General Motors announced on Thursday, Dec. 5, 2013, that it will end shipments of Chevrolet cars to the Continent to focus on the German-based Opel and U.K.-based Vauxhall, its main brands in Europe. (AP Photo/Daniel Roland)
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**FILE** An enormous crowd takes part in the Sept. 12 march on Washington to protest government spending and health care reform proposals. The field plan for a series of grassroots demonstrations Tuesday to push President Obama's health care agenda show the events will be tightly scripted with plans for "escalation," but organizers insist there is no comparison to rowdy town hall meetings and "tea party" protests challenging White House policies that they say conservatives staged. (Mary F. Calvert/The Washington Times)
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** FILE ** In this Sept. 15, 2008 file photo, Bank of America Chairman and CEO Ken Lewis listens during a news conference in New York. New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has subpoenaed Lewis as part of an investigation into whether the bank misled investors about losses and executive bonuses at Merrill Lynch & Co, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday, Feb. 19, 2009. (AP Photos/Bebeto Matthews, file)
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Cars drive under a grid of power lines crossing the 5 Highway Friday, March 27, 1998, in Los Angeles. California will try a second time to launch a deregulated, $23 billion electricity market designed to lower rates and improve efficiency through competition. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS People walk outside the United States embassy, a concrete-and-glass building by modernist architect Eero Saarinen, in central London. The U.S. government said Tuesday it has agreed to sell its vast embassy building to a Qatari government-owned company.
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** FILE ** A Wall Street street sign is pictured in front of the American flag hanging on the New York Stock Exchange in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
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** FILE ** In this April 16, 2008, photo, Janet L. Yellen, president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, speaks about foreclosures to the Bay Area Council Outlook Conference in Alameda, Calif. President Obama on Thursday, April 29, 2010, named Ms. Yellen to be vice chairwoman of the Federal Reserve and filled two other vacancies at the central bank whose decisions influence economic activity, employment and inflation. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)
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** FILE ** In this Jan. 16, 2009 file photo, Citigroup headquarters is seen in New York. The Treasury Department said Thursday that it has raised $10.5 billion from Citigroup share sales, and that the bank has repaid $20 billion of the $45 billion it received from the federal government in 2008. (Photo/Richard Drew)
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Illustration: Reagan tax reform by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times.
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D.C. Jail in Washington, D.C. (Courtesy of wtopnews.com)
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Sara Wade, an Illinois schoolteacher, is the sole breadwinner for son Dominic and daughter Genevieve, 10. She got divorced in 2004 and her former husband, a carpenter and contractor, hasn't been able to pay child support since January of 2009. April's strong employment growth showed women gained 86,000 jobs last month, far fewer than the 204,000 jobs gained by men, according to a Joint Economic Committee report. (Carrie Eccleston via Associated Press)
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Firefighters try to extinguish burning cars near to the Hadrian's Arch seen in the background, in Athens, Wednesday, May 5, 2010. Greek fire officials say three people have died in a blaze at an Athens bank during rioting over government austerity measures. An estimated 100,000 people took to the streets Wednesday during a nationwide wave of strikes against spending cuts aimed at saving the country from bankruptcy. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)
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** FILE ** Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner has a word with Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke as they testify before the House Financial Services Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington on Tuesday, April 20, 2010. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
