Submit a Story!
Votes
topics:

vote down flag
huffingtonpost.com - 3/18/2009
AIG's Liddy Testifies On Capitol Hill Wednesday
—
WASHINGTON — The head of insurance giant AIG goes to Capitol Hill this morning, where he'll reluctantly defend millions of dollars' worth of bonuses doled out to employees despite the company's need for a $170 billion government bailout. Edward M. Liddy, who took over AIG last fall, says ...
Capitol Hill: Parties All the Time (video)
Play
youtube.com - 3/20/2009
Capitol Hill: Parties All the Time (video)
— youtube.com — ANP senior producer Harry Hanbury set out to visit every Congressional fundraising party on Capitol Hill in... a single day. He met a cast of characters in the ... (more) Capitol Hill: Parties All the Time (video)

Comments vote down Politics on HuffingtonPost.com found this 3/20/2009found this
voices.washingtonpost.com - 3/13/2009
Today on the Hill - Capitol Briefing
— voices.washingtonpost.com — It's great to see that there are so many congressional leaders working to help turn this country... around. Foreign policy is something that the country needs to start working on. The Borgen Project (www.borgenproject.org)has some great ideas on how to ... (more) Today on the Hill - Capitol Briefing

Comments vote down NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias found this 3/13/2009found this
politico.com - 3/18/2009
5 questions for AIG's Edward Liddy
— politico.com — Liddy steps into the public maelstrom over $165 million in bonuses paid to his company's executives.... (more) 5 questions for AIG's Edward Liddy

Comments vote down The Page by Mark Halperin found this 3/18/2009found this

Blog Reactions

Weekly Standard Blog:  AIGee, That's a Lot of Money

Comments
Blog Reactions

AIGee, That's a Lot of Money
Weekly Standard Blog — AIG's bonus bucks continue to stir outrage. Up next: AIG executive Edward Liddy testifies before Congress today. Cue the sanctimony! Secretary Geithner said yesterday that the Treasury will deduct the amount of the bonuses from the most recent AIG bailout. (Total spent propping up AIG so far: $200 billion.) But Geithner's policy isn't stopping congressional Democrats from plotting to tax the bonus money at absurdly high marginal rates. Krauthammer: When you get politicians ahead of the mob running ...

Related Content
AIG's Liddy: Bonus Payments 'Distasteful'
online.wsj.com 3/19/2009 — AIG Chief Liddy offered little defense of the company's payout of $165 million in bonuses to executives in recent days, telling lawmakers in that he found some of the payments "distasteful." (Prepared text)
AIG Bonus Outrage On Capitol Hill
thehopeforamerica.com 3/18/2009 — Carl Cameron reports
U.S. lawmakers to grill AIG's Greenberg, Liddy (Reuters)
news.yahoo.com 4/3/2009 — Reuters - The chairman of a U.S. House of Representatives oversight panel on Wednesday said he will soon call the chief executive of American International Group Inc to testify, amid the committee's ongoing probe of the fall of the insurance giant.
AIG CEO Liddy: Chairman Bernanke And The Federal Reserve Approved Of Bonuses
wonkroom.thinkprogress.org 3/18/2009 — Much of the discussion regarding the AIG bonus debacle is revolving around who in the government knew that the bonuses were coming and when they knew it . During his appearance before Congress today, AIG CEO Edward Liddy said that the Federal ...
Drama on the Hill
powerlineblog.com 3/18/2009 — Today the House Subcommittee on Capital Markets conducted a hearing on "AIG's impact on the global economy." The hearing has been scheduled for a while, but the current furor over payment of bonuses by AIG made it the focus of much attention and even a protest by none other than Code Pink, ...
Cuomo Wants Info On AIG's Credit Default Swaps
tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com 3/27/2009 — Is New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo's probe of those AIG bonuses expanding? Maybe kind of. The Wall Street Journal reports ( sub. req. ) that Cuomo plans to subpoena AIG for documents about the credit default swaps that brought the ...
What AIG's CEO Really Needs To Say
simplifythepositive.blogspot.com 3/17/2009 — "I am forced to pay some of my people 6 million dollars to keep from losing 600 million dollars because a wet behind the ears rookie doesn't know how to bend or ignore marketplace trading rules the way my guys can without getting caught."
Obama on the Hill
politico.com 1/29/2009 — Barack Obama's trip to Capitol Hill hasn't brought some grand compromise with House Republicans, but it would be a mistake to read that as a failure. The latest, Politico reports : "President Barack Obama rolled into the Capitol with a clear ...
Geithner Blasted On Capitol Hill
thehopeforamerica.com 3/13/2009 — The Treasury Secretary responds to tough comments and questions from Senators
Obama Pushes for Stimulus on Capitol Hill
nytimes.com 1/6/2009 — President-elect Barack Obama took his recovery package to Capitol Hill, working to build a bipartisan coalition to endorse his plan of tax cuts and new spending. >