Video: Financial reform bill follows year of wrangling
The Senate cleared the last hurdle toward a final vote on the sweeping financial reform bill. NBC's Luke Russert reports on Capitol Hill. (Other)

Video: Does the financial reform bill do enough?
Sheila Bair, chairwoman of the FDIC, and the Morning Joe team discuss whether the financial reform bill signed into law this week accomplishes what it should. (Other)

Video: Blistering heat matches Ariz. political climate
Critics say Sen. John McCain has gone silent on climate change and campaign finance reform in order to win his primary fight for a fifth senate term. NBC's Kelly O'Donnell reports. (Nightly News)

Video: Obama confronts midterm tensions
As the president remains persistent in finalizing items on his agenda, such as passing financial reform, the focus in Washington is on November’s elections. NBC’s Chuck Todd reports. (Today Show)

Video: Obama: ‘No more taxpayer funded bailouts’
President Obama speaks about the passage of the financial regulation bill, and explains what the changes will mean. (NBC News)

Seacoast Republican Women Senatorial Debate – Part 1
Wednesday niight, the Seacoast Republican Women (Portsmouth, NH) held a double header: a debate between the Republican candidates in NH's CD-1 and then those for Senate. The moderator for both debates was Nancy Stiles (NH House of Representatives, running for NH Senate). Candidates included (Senate): Kelly Ayotte, Gerard Belion, Jim

Video: Obama: Health law strengthen Medicare
In his weekly radio and Internet address, President Obama says. "The steps we took this year to reform the healthcare system have put Medicare on a sounder financial footing." Watch his entire address. (NBC News)

Video: Obama: GOP blocking small business aid
In his weekly radio and Internet address, President Obama says, "I'm calling on the Republican leaders in the Senate to stop holding America's small businesses hostage to politics, and allow an up-or-down vote on this small business jobs bill." Watch his entire address. (NBC News)

NYU's White on Regulatory Reform
Lawrence White, an economics professor at New York University's Stern School of Business, talks about the positive and negative aspects of the U.S. financial regulatory legislation. White speaks with Pimm Fox on Bloomberg Television's "Taking Stock."

Financial Crisis Commission
June 2 -- Financial Crises Inquiry Commission Chairman Philip Angelides talks with Bloomberg's Peter Cook about the role of credit ratings firms in the financial crisis