President Obama said today that he’s “confident” about financial reform’s prospects, even after the death of Sen. Robert Byrd (D-WV), a key vote for reform that Democrats are now hard pressed to replace.Speaking to reporters after an Oval Office meeting with Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, Timothy Geithner and others, Obama said Byrd will be “sorely missed,” but that he wasn’t thinking about the Senator’s passing in the context of legislation.
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