thehill.com - 1/13/2009
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A bipartisan pair of congressmen is lobbying President-elect Obama on some “green” building programs they would like him to include in an economic stimulus plan. Reps. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) and Zach Wamp (R-Tenn.) wrote a letter to Obama this week urging his support for a national “green ...
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Thin Gruel
Talking Points Memo —
... Meanwhile, though, there are some kernels of more ambitious ideas. Rep. Van Hollen (D-MD) and Zach Wamp (R-TN) sent a letter to the president-elect Obama about so-called 'Green Banks', specifically something called the National Clean Energy Lending Authority. The idea is a government chartered authority which would be empowered and funded to do a certain amount of lending to green projects but also, and perhaps more significantly, issue government guarantees that would make it easier and cheaper for green projects to get funded in the private sector. ...
Senior Dems: New Energy Tax Benefits Coming
TPM Election Central —
... John Kerry (D-MA), like Schumer a senior member on Finance, was more specific. He said senators are talking about a "green lending" proposal to direct loans to worthy alternative energy projects -- perhaps along the lines of Reps. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) and Zach Wamp's (R-TN) plan to set up "green banks." ...
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Bernanke: More bank bailouts needed —
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