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Barack Obama will have to wait, the president of the Unites States, the main promoter of the financial regulatory reform in the country, was astonished after the Senate refused to end the parliamentary debate around the project of law.

The procedure to approve this new law is already spending several weeks, and the party of Barack Obama, the Democrats, intended to limit the debate at a maximum of 30 hours more to vote the legal text, without more patches, before the end of this week.

In order to accomplish that, called a previous motion to consider ended or not the parliamentary procedures. However, the High Chamber rejected th democrat demand, with Republicans united against it, and the debate will continue during several day in the Capitol, until the parties reach an agreement.

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The president of the United States, Barack Obama, is also worried for the crisis in Spain that could trigger the European Domino. Barack Obama, Spoke yesterday with the Spanish president, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, also known as Mr Bean, to answer about the economics measures to take in Spain. One of the reasons of the conversation between Barack Obama and José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero could be the heavy loses suffered by Wall street caused by the weakness in the Eurozone.

According the spokesman of the White House, Robert Gibbs, the conversation was produced because Spain “suffers some problems where is necessary to take measures on them to be sure that will not extent to other countries”. However, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero reiterates that Spanish Economy isn’t Greek economy.

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Barack Obama defensed the necessity of reform the financial system to protect consumers and regulate the behavior in Wall Street.

Obama suggested in the yearly meeting on Washington of the enterprise council, to support the law project discussed in the congress about the financial reform.

“The measures we proposed are no way intended to hurt companies”. Assured Barack obama.

“As we learned so painfully last years, the Government has the obligation to establish rules of common sense in the markets”, aggregated.

Otherwise, “some can find more attractive try to take profit of the system than compete and innovate in honest way inside it”.

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The president Barack Obama, will try to struggle with unemployment (that is at 10% in USA), with the unused tarp funds.

In a speech hold on the Brookings institution, Barack Obama said that wants to ”boost the job generation” with part of the unused $200bn that will be saved from the financial rescue.

”The aid to the banks, was forecast to cost billions of dollars, but not it is in the way to generate billions of dollars in profits to the public treasure”, said Barack Obama.

The program was launched by the administration of his ancestor, George W.Bush, to prevent the the financial system to collapse after the bankruptcy of the investment bank Lehman Brothers. However, Many Banks returned the funds with interests as market stabilized during the last months, and the cost of the program has been reduced.

”This will give us the opportunity to reduce deficit faster than what we expected before, and use funds that would have gone to help the banks of Wall Street, to contribute in job generation”, said Barack Obama.

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