Bush to Ask for TARP; Obama to 'Rebrand' It
abcnews.go.com 1/12/2009 — President-elect Barack Obama asked President Bush today to request the release of the second $350 billion in federal bailout funds so he would have "ammunition" if the country's fragile economy weakened further. The White House said that Bush has ...

TARP
balloon-juice.com 2/15/2009 — Surprise good news in the TARP bill that President Obama just signed. I could get used to this. A provision buried deep inside the $787 billion economic stimulus bill would impose restrictions on executive bonuses at financial institutions that ...

By All Means, Let's Give Treasury More Money to Spend
corner.nationalreview.com 2/7/2009 — The panel of experts created by Congress to oversee the TARP program has found that the Treasury Department drastically overpaid for the stakes it took in financial institutions. The Wall Street Journal reports that "an analysis of 10 TARP ...

Adventures in Lobbying
openleft.com 1/26/2009 — When I offered in a blog thread to go lobby on TARP oversight and reform while I was in DC, little did I know that I was going to be asked to write about it on Open Left.  It's a challenge to rise to the standards set by all the wonderful writers ...

What Goes Around Comes Around:
volokh.com 1/23/2009 — The Washington Times notes today that many of the recipients of federal bailout funds are also major political donors:...

TARP Watchdog: Treasury Overpaid For TARP Investments
money.cnn.com 2/5/2009 — WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- The three government watchdogs overseeing the $700 billion financial rescue package continued to criticize the Treasury Department's implementation of the plan, suggesting a lack of a strategic vision and raising the concern ...

President Obama to Announce New Boss Salary Restrictions for TARP-Receiving Companies
blogs.abcnews.com 2/4/2009 — Later this morning the White House and Treasury Department will announce new restrictions on executive compensation on financial institutions receiving government funds. An Obama administration official tells ABC News that under the new rules, ...

After Kashkari, Who Runs TARP?
tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com 2/5/2009 — Amidst all the debate over the stimulus package, Tom Daschle's limos, and when the White House puppies will arrive, it's worth keeping an eye on TARP, the Troubled Assets Relief Program that was supposed to get us out of this mess in the first place. ...

Executive pay caps that survived in the stimulus
dailykos.com 2/15/2009 — Cross-posted from Congress Matters . If you've got a Daily Kos account, you've got a Congress Matters account. Log in with your existing Daily Kos user name and password. Seems some executive pay limits for TARP recipients did survive the ...

Bush Agrees to Request Additional $350 Billion in Financial Bailout Money - FOXNews.com Transition Tracker
foxnews.com 1/12/2009 — President Bush has agreed to ask Congress to release the remaining $350 billion from the financial bailout package. White House press secretary Dana Perino said Monday that Bush agreed to a request from President-elect Barack Obama to notify Congress ...

Obama's Justice pick sees waterboarding as torture — Reuters: Politics 1/15/2009
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Eric Holder, U.S. President-elect Barack Obama's nominee to be attorney general, said he believed the controversial interrogation tactic of waterboarding, used by the CIA against three terrorism suspects, is a form of torture.  ...

Democrats Propose $6 Billion for Broadband — WSJ.com: Washington Wire 1/15/2009
Amy Schatz reports on the economic stimulus and tech policy. So much for the broadband tax breaks. The $825 billion proposal from the incoming Obama administration and House Democrats includes $6 billion to improve ...

'Bloody Sunday' paved road to Obama White House — CNN.com - Politics 1/15/2009
For almost 60 years, Grace Britton Sweet has had the right to vote. She can vividly recall the day she registered.

A final TARP push from Team Obama — First Read 1/15/2009
From NBC's Ken Strickland and Carrie Dann Several Republicans and Democrats publicly warned this week that they would not support releasing an additional $350-billion in TARP money unless they had a clear idea of how that money would be ...

Nominee to UN post calls it imperfect institution (AP) — Yahoo! News: Politics News 1/15/2009
AP - President-elect Barack Obama's choice for U.S. envoy to the United Nations told lawmakers Thursday that she will work to strengthen "an indispensable if imperfect" institution.