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Loans? Did We Say We'd Do Loans? »
Posted by: Beau7890 2 weeks, 6 days ago in Business & Finance
According to Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, the chief proponent of the big bank bailout, flooding the banks with taxpayers' money was supposed to get them ...
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After Bailout, AIG Executives Head to Resort - Live Coverage -Live Coverage - washingtonpost.com »
Posted by: Beau7890 1 month, 1 week ago in Business & Finance
Less than a week after the federal government offered an $85 billion bailout to insurance giant AIG, the company held a week-long retreat for its ...
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Millions of Medicare dollars at risk due to poor oversight of medical suppliers »
Posted by: ameliog 3 months, 2 weeks ago in News
The government is putting millions of Medicare dollars at risk by authorizing fictitious sellers of wheelchairs, prosthetics and other medical supplies to submit reimbursement claims ...
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What prompted lax oversight? For politicians, a $64 million question »
Posted by: bruhaha 1 month, 2 weeks ago in Politics
Washington - The Wall Street financiers and firms whose problems have prompted a $700 billion federal bailout are no strangers to Capitol Hill or to politics ...
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Joe Lieberman - The Progressive Who Lost His Way »
Posted by: Neophile 1 week ago in Politics
In a new report, ThinkProgress documents Lieberman’s significant shift to the right in both foreign and domestic policy.
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Commentary: Where's the oversight for $700B bailout? - CNN.com »
Posted by: ProudBlueTexan 3 days, 22 hours ago in Politics
Editor's note: Campbell Brown anchors CNN's "Campbell Brown: No Bias, No Bull" at 8 p.m. ET Mondays through Fridays. She delivered this ...
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Lawmaker, Others To Push Oversight, Impeachment At Convention »
Posted by: SNance 3 months ago in News
A group of Democrats, including Rep. Robert Wexler of Florida, will host a discussion at the coming Democratic National Convention focusing on oversight of the ...
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U.S. Economy: Bad assets sold to US taxpayers for $700B - Nachrichten English-News - WELT ONLINE »
Posted by: german-shepard 1 month, 2 weeks ago in News
What started as a fairly simple three-page proposal giving the Treasury secretary unchecked power to orchestrate a bailout of the country’ s financial system ended ...
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White House attempted to influence Congressional elections | jhoomba.com »
Posted by: jhoomba 1 month ago in Politics
A report released by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform today found that the White House had "used the political affairs office to ...
