Dodd Financial Reform to Build off Obama Base: Aide

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A comprehensive financial regulation reform bill to be released within days by Senator Christopher Dodd will be based on the Obama administration's bill, with key differences, a Dodd aide said on Thursday.

"We will use the administration's proposal as base text," Kirstin Brost, spokeswoman for Dodd, the Democratic chairman of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee, told Reuters.

(Reporting by Kevin Drawbaugh; Editing by James Dalgleish)

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