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After narrowly passing the House of Representatives on Thursday, the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act of 2015 (the "Act") was passed by the Senate on Saturday. Preliminary bills leading up to the Act contained various financial regulatory reforms, including exemptions for small banks from both mortgage-underwriting standards and the Volcker rule, as well as a provision that would have subjected the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to the Congressional appropriations process. Most of these reforms were omitted from the final text. The Act (Section 630 at page 615)