tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com - 1/12/2009
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Last week, Congress's oversight panel for the TARP funds confirmed in a report that the Treasury Department essentially has no idea what banks have done with the astronomical sums they've been handed.
Given this lack of information, we figured it might at least be helpful to know a bit about ...
freewillsf.blogspot.com - 1/19/2009
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freewillsf.blogspot.com —
Obama-time is still two days away, but the
legislative branch is already hard at work. For Democrats,...
the Senate has always been their special preserve. They are masters of the filibuster, keepers of the Senatorial privilege, and firm adherents to ...
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2009 Senate Democrats Preview
weeklystandard.com - 1/17/2009
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weeklystandard.com —
Of seven newly minted freshman Democratic senators, six
voted for releasing the second half of the $700...
billion TARP funds in what is being considered Obama's first major test of strength on the Hill. This would be rather uncontroversial had not five ...
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Profiles in Courage: Obama's Freshman Democratic Senators
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Who's Running TARP
Talking Points Memo —
Who's in charge of TARP and spending your $700 billion? Not a pretty picture. But we thought you might want to know.
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OH, GOODY: “Last week, Congress’s oversight panel for the TARP funds confirmed in a report that the…
Instapundit —
... OH, GOODY: “Last week, Congress’s oversight panel for the TARP funds confirmed in a report that the Treasury Department essentially has no idea what banks have done with the astronomical sums they’ve been handed.” ...
Progressive Breakfast: World According To TARP
LiberalOasis : The Blog —
... (and most of the rest of the what the Treasury is doing), that sometimes a new big new piece of information will get pried loose and it's something that I hadn't even realized wasn't available already. As a case in point, Sen. Levin (D-MI) just put out a press release announcing that the Treasury has agreed to release the contracts for the massive amounts of TARP money the Treasury gave invested in banks like Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, Morgan Stanley, et al." Also ...
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Americans Want Details Before Release of More TARP Funds
gallup.com 1/15/2009 — PRINCETON, NJ -- A majority of Americans (62%) say Congress should block President-elect Obama's request to release the remaining $350 billion in Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) funds until more details are provided about how the funds will be ...
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
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 ...
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 ...
Treasury: Lending Down Among TARP Recipients
washingtonindependent.com 2/18/2009 — 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 ...
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 ...
Bailout Overseer To Ask Banks To Track Funds
tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com 1/23/2009 — Could we finally be headed for a whole new level of transparency and oversight over the bailout funds?
Neal Barofsky, the inspector general for the TARP program, today sent a letter to Sen. Charles Grassley, the ranking Republican on the Finance ...
Congressional oversight panel: we was robbed!
polipundit.com 2/6/2009 — Remember those statements from Treasury officials that TARP was actually making a profit? Yeah, not so much.
[Elizabeth] Warren, head of TARP’s Congressional oversight panel, told the banking committee that after three months on the job, her panel was ...
TARP: What Did We Get For Our Money?
tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com 1/17/2009 — Remember how, back when Congress was negotiating with the Bush administration over the terms of the bailout, one of the major sticking points was Rep. Barney Frank's insistence that taxpayers receive equity in the companies we were saving, so that we ...
Sources: Voinovich to retire from Senate —
CNN Political Ticker 1/12/2009
Sources say Sen. George Voinovich, a Republican from Ohio, will retire from the Senate.
WASHINGTON (CNN) — Sources close to Sen. George Voinovich, R-Ohio, tell CNN he will announce Monday he is retiring from the Senate.
The 72-year-old ...
Fed Backs Obama's Bailout Request —
Wash Post In Congress 1/14/2009
Top officials of the Federal Reserve yesterday offered the most detailed proposals yet for overhauling the rescue of the financial system, urging Congress to release the next batch of bailout money and arguing that a stimulus program alone is not ...
Obama Seeks Second Half of Bailout Funds —
Wash Post In Congress 1/13/2009
President-elect Barack Obama yesterday launched an aggressive campaign to persuade a deeply skeptical Congress to permit him to spend another $350 billion to stabilize the still-fragile U.S. financial system, as the Bush White House formally notified ...
Congress: On Burris and TARP —
First Read 1/14/2009
Per his associates, Roland Burris will be sworn into the Senate by Vice President Dick Cheney at 2:00 pm ET tomorrow.
Said Burris: "I really never doubted that I would be seated. It was just a matter of going through the process and making sure that ...
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