nytimes.com - 1/13/2009
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Despite skepticism from some senators, party leaders signaled that they would support the release of the second half of the $700 billion fund. >
propublica.org - 1/16/2009
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Flickr/Change.gov Obama's economic team finally did get a
bit more specific with their plans for the second
$350 billion of the TARP, and it was enough to win the day in the Senate. On a 52-42 vote , the Senate voted to release the money. The ...
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Senate Votes to Release Bailout Money
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Levin: "My Instinct Would Be To Release" TARP Contracts
TPMMuckraker —
... that he is getting copies of the contracts for companies receiving bailout money under the TARP program, we were thrilled to finally see what terms the government insisted on for taxpayer funds. But this morning in the New York Times, a Levin aide was quoted as saying that his office would not publicly release the contracts. And a Levin spokeswoman told TPMmuckraker the same thing in an email. ...
Business As Usual
Talking Points Memo —
... Late Update: Turns out there's a bit of a mystery here. An unnamed Levin aide told the Times that they did not plan to make the contracts public. But when we talked to Levin earlier today, it seemed to be the first he'd heard of the idea of not releasing the documents publicly -- he ...
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