The ink is barely dry on the financial overhaul bill and already some lawmakers and interest groups are looking at ways to tweak it.

Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) has introduced a bill to repeal the measure, and it has attracted seven co-sponsors, all fellow Republicans.

While the Republican-controlled House isn't likely to repeal the bill-and if it did the Democratic-controlled Senate would almost certainly defeat the effort-House Republicans have talked about modifying certain parts of the law. The Dodd-Frank regulatory overhaul was passed last year mostly along party lines, with almost all Democrats supporting it and almost all Republicans opposing it.

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