politics.theatlantic.com - 2/4/2009
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Just 15 years ago, President Clinton's $16.3 billion economic stimulus package was backlogged in the Senate because moderate Republicans and Democrats refused to go along with roughly $12 billion in new spending. Like Obama, President Clinton sold the plan as something ...
washingtonindependent.com - 2/5/2009
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washingtonindependent.com —
This amendment to the economic stimulus bill passed
by the House and now being considered by the...
Senate, submitted by conservative icon-in-the-making Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.), was breathtakingly bold. The gist , from Sen. DeMint’s Website: o ...
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It’s All Part of My Stimulus Fantasy
tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com - 2/5/2009
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Tomorrow's job report is likely to be awful.
January's job losses could easily top half a million....
We're deep into the most vicious of economic cycles: Consumers are slashing their spending because they're perilously in debt and worried about keeping ...
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Senate Republicans and the Stimulus: Playing Politics ...
swamppolitics.com - 2/4/2009
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swamppolitics.com —
by Rebecca Cole Hey, what about Obama's five-day
rule? Congress today passed a bill expanding the State...
Children's Health Insurance Program, or SCHIP, allocating an additional $32.8 billion in funding for the program over the next four and a ...
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Obama's five-day rule: Broken again
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Morning Skim: Post-Daschle; Stimulus and Despair; Saving Media
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... takes some creative positioning) like wiping out shareholders at obviously dud banks (Citi is top of the list), forcing bondholder haircuts and/or equity swaps, replacing management, writing off and/or restructuring bad loans, and deciding whether and how to reorganize and restructure the company. Instead, the banks are now getting the AIG treatment: every demand is being met, no tough questions asked, no probing of the accounts (or more important, the accounting). The Atlantic : Marc Ambinder handicaps the differences in the House and Senate stimulus bills , and speculates ...
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swamppolitics.com 2/13/2009 — by Mark Silva
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”The Obama administration plans to limit pay to $500,000 a year for executives of government-assisted financial institutions in a new get-tough approach to bankers and Wall Street,” the AP writes. “Obama plans to announce the new limits with ...
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