Law360, Los Angeles (January 13, 2015, 10:48 PM ET) — The U.S. House of Representatives held off on voting on a bill Tuesday that would take some of the teeth out of the Dodd-Frank Act by easing Volcker Rule requirements and keeping the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission from regulating some private equity outfits as brokerage firms.

The lawmakers debated for an hour on the Republican-anointed “Promoting Job Creation and Reducing Small Business Burden Act,” a measure to make “technical corrections” to Dodd-Frank and ease the requirements in it under the Volcker Rule, which restrains proprietary…

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