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Obama proposal boosts SEC and CFTC oversight spending

Frontline financial regulators protected in US President's budget blueprint

The Obama administration doesn’t want to squeeze frontline financial regulators as it seeks to tame the federal budget deficit.

Both the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the Securities and Exchange Commission would receive hefty budget increases to beef up oversight of Wall Street, under the Obama administration's budget blueprint proposal released Wednesday.

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