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Senate Fills Crucial Inspector General Position After Weeks of Delay, Senate Confirms Bailout Boss

 

Published 12/9/2008 by Paul C. Light at Wash Post Federal Page

Americans who wondered whether Congress was serious about independent oversight of the federal government's $700 billion bailout finally got an answer yesterday, when the Senate confirmed a New York prosecutor as watchdog of the costly rescue program for the nation's financial sector. (link)

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