Although the new consumer agency is designed to protect consumers, it will also ease the regulatory burden on financial services providers, Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd said today.

"Financial firms will benefit from a streamlined and minimized regulatory burden," Dodd (D-Conn.) said in a speech at New York University.

He also said the agency doesn't really give the government much more power.

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