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tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com - 2/24/2009
EXCLUSIVE: Unions Ask Geithner to Deny Bailout Plea From Lobbying-Mad Financial Firm
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The labor federation Change to Win (CtW) is taking a major step today in the effort to restrict bailed-out bank lobbying. In a letter to Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, CtW Chair Anna Burger makes a direct request that Principal Financial Group's $2 billion TARP application be denied due to ...
washingtonindependent.com - 2/18/2009
Treasury: Lending Down Among TARP Recipients
— washingtonindependent.com — new report out of the Treasury Department Tuesday confirmed what many lawmakers, housing advocates, small businesses and... individual consumers have known all along: That despite hundreds of billions of dollars flowing from Washington to the finance ... (more) Treasury: Lending Down Among TARP Recipients

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tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com - 2/28/2009
Sununu Sits On TARP Oversight Panel, And On Board Of Bank That Administers TARP
— tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com — John Sununu, who serves on the Congressional Oversight Panel monitoring the government's bailout progam, has joined the... board of a subsidiary to Bank of New York Mellon -- a firm that, in addition to receiving bailout funds, has been hired by the ... (more) Sununu Sits On TARP Oversight Panel, And On Board Of ...

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Pressing The Advantage
Talking Points Memo — ... Union group calls on Treasury to deny TARP funds to Principal Financial Group because of its heavy lobbying expenditures, especially on the Employee Free Choice Act, TPMDC reports. ...

EXCLUSIVE: Unions Ask Geithner to Deny Bailout Plea From Lobbying-Mad Financial Firm
Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News — ... bailout. *** Principal is also the only TARP applicant or recipient that has disclosed lobbying on the Employee Free Choice Act. As it fields requests for government money from businesses both large and small, the Treasury Department has promised to shed more sunlight on its bailout decision-making. So let's give Treasury the benefit of the doubt and assume it has successfully mitigated the ferocity of companies lobbying to join the Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP). Read more: http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/02/exclusive-un...

Midday open thread
Daily Kos — ... the harder it is for him to make up that margin ... That might explain why as we've gone along, the Coleman campaign seems to have shifted more and more towards claiming fundamental errors in the process as opposed to trying to focus on those counts," he said. The New York Times, defending the GOP's right to lie about San Francisco marsh mice. The Change to Win labor federation is urging the Obama Administration to deny TARP money for anti-union bank. This dude was using Karl Rove's ...

Labor urges denial of TARP funds to anti-union bank
Daily Kos — ... , came under fire today from labor coalition Change to Win for applying for a portion of the TARP bailout when the firm has admitted to funding lobbying efforts fighting the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA), according to Elana Schor at TPM. ...

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