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The Federalist Society

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:16:46 +0000

The Federalist Society Online Debate Series The Pay Czar & the Appointments Clause – a Forum November 19, 2009 Last updated at 2 PM on Friday, November 20, 2009 Under the statute authorizing the Troubled Assets Relief Program, Congress authorized the Secretary of the Treasury to "require each ...

The Volokh Conspiracy found this 2 days ago on fed-soc.org

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Elizabeth Warren

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:16:31 +0000

Warren began at George Washington at 17. At 19, she married mathematician Jim Warren, who worked at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, and finished her degree at the University of Houston. They divorced in 1978. Her second husband, Bruce Mann, is Harvard’s Carl F. Schipper Professor of Law ...

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TARP Audit Finds Geithner Gave Away The Farm

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:14:25 +0000

This post by Jill Schlesinger originally appeared on CBS' MoneyWatch.com . Special Inspector General for TARP (aka "SIG TARP") Neil Barofsky said something we've all known for a while: the government gave away the farm when AIG failed . If you recall, AIG's failure meant that the ...

Matthew Yglesias found this 5 days ago on cbsnews.com

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GOP candidate wants Geither to be replaced

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:17:44 +0000

A former House Republican running for the Senate in Connecticut is calling for Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner to be replaced because of the handling of AIG's bailout. GOP candidate Rob Simmons reacted to a report by Neil Barofsky, the inspector general of the $700 billion bailout program, ...

Instapundit found this 4 days ago on thehill.com

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Thune seeks to stop TARP spending

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 07:27:25 +0000

Thune tried to kill TARP with an amendment to the unemployment benefits bill, but Reid blocked it.

CNSNews.com Headlines found this 5 days ago on politico.com

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Video: Spare TARP Funds Could Ease Deficit

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:56:20 +0000

A $210 billion surplus in TARP funding could be used to reduced the U.S.'s towering national deficit. WSJ's Deborah Solomon says the move follows criticism of the Obama administration's approach to debt.

MediaMan posted 10 days ago from politicalnewslive.blogspot.com

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Actual Headline: "White House Aims to Cut Deficit With TARP Cash"

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 02:29:36 +0000

This was a real headline, I swear. According to Wall Street Journal reporters Deborah Solomon and Jonathan Weisman, the White House is considering 'cutting the deficit' with borrowed cash -- only that's not how the headline writer put it. A caption writer described the article thusly : A ...

Hot Air » Top Picks found this 9 days ago on theneweditor.com

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Speech - November 10, 2009

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:23:00 +0000

The $787 billion fiscal stimulus program remains in force. Nearly $200 billion of this amount has been paid out through the end of October. The "cash for clunkers" program, part of the stimulus effort, has already expired. The first-time home buyers' tax credit has been broadened and extended ...

Calculated Risk found this 12 days ago on frbatlanta.org

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President Obama Announces 'Jobs Summit'

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:30:18 +0000

ABC News' Rachel Martin reports: President Obama today announced a “job creation forum” that will take place at the White House sometime in December. In short remarks today before leaving on his trip to Asia, the president said that while...

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GM Announces It Will Pay Back Gov’t Loan … With Gov’t Money

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 03:05:50 +0000

GM will be begin paying back the TARP money in December, the company announced this morning. It’s a statement in need of a little context. Basically, GM will be using a portion of its $50 billion in TARP bailout money it received to in turn repay another portion of the TARP loans.

MediaMan posted 5 days ago from onthehillblog.blogspot.com

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Can Conservatives Govern?

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 01:49:29 +0000

At a gathering last night, I was defending the point that the TARP and some kind of fiscal stimulus had been absolutely essential last year - that otherwise the world economy might have plunged into Depression. The dominant view in the conservative world though rejects the decisions of last ...

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Obama administration may eye using TARP for deficit reduction

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 21:09:30 +0000

The Obama administration may explore using leftover bailout funds to pay off the deficit, the president's budget director said Thursday. Office of Management and Budget Director Peter Orszag told a summit this afternoon sponsored by Bloomberg News that the $210 billion in unspent funds from the ...

Open Left - Front Page found this 9 days ago on thehill.com

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The Big Gov’t Mortgage Mod Program: The Latest Numbers

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:04:12 +0000

The administration’s $75 billion mortgage modification program is meant to help 3 million to 4 million homeowners avoid foreclosures. The latest data, out Tuesday, shows mortgage servicers are making some progress toward this goal, but big questions remain about how effective the program will be.

MediaMan posted 10 days ago from onthehillblog.blogspot.com

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