Christopher Dodd

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• Your Tax Dollars at Work: Dodd’s 1100 Page Financial Reform Bill

  
  The Reformed Broker — Authority: 630
  A BILL   To identify and address risks to the stability of the United States financial system through the establishment of the Agency for Financial Stability, to ensure the orderly resolution of failing complex financial institutions in order to minimize economic turmoil and protect ...
  8 hours ago

• Dodd Unveils Financial Overhaul Bill

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 457
  Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd is circulating legislation that would give the government sweeping new powers to prevent another economic collapse.
  13 hours ago

• Our National Nightmare Continues: Dodd Set to Unveil Financial Reform Bill

  
  JammieWearingFool — Authority: 717
  You would expect to see something like this in The Onion. Sadly, the corrupt hack from Connecticut, Countrywide Chris Dodd, the Friend of Angelo, has his grubby paws on our banking system and plans "financial reform" for us. What could possibly go wrong?Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd will unveil ...
  15 hours ago

• Senate leaders reach deal on extending homebuyers tax credit

  
  CNN Political Ticker — Authority: 849
  WASHINGTON (CNN) – Two U.S. senators on Thursday confirmed a bipartisan deal intended to extend the first-time homebuyers tax credit that was originally passed earlier this year as part of the economic stimulus bill. Democratic Sen. Christopher Dodd of Connecticut and Republican Sen. Johnny Isakson of Georgia ...
  1 week ago

• Recovery By Extension

  
  Michael Saunders Real Estate Blog — Authority: 120
  The tax credit has been so effective in stimulating sales and stabilizing home prices that continuing it seems like a no-brainer in light of a housing market that still exhibits contradictory signs of recovery. Secondly, a significant new wave of foreclosures is in the pipeline that could easily undo much of the ...
  1 week ago

• Dodd: Reprimanding Lieberman is “Ridiculous”

  
  Firedoglake — Authority: 768
  Sen. Chris Dodd (D-CT) (photo by kthread) Last week, Chris Dodd said he might support Joe Lieberman as an independent in 2012. And yesterday after Lieberman threatened to take the unprecedented and historic move of joining the Republicans to break the caucus’s filibuster-proof majority, Dodd said there would be ...
  1 week ago

• An Email from Citi’s Vice President of Public Affairs; Dodd introduces bill to freeze credit-card rates.

  
  Get Credit Cards — Authority: 159
  Early this morning in How The Citi-Grinch Stole Christmas (and Why Its a Good Thing) I wrote " If ever there were screams of "Please Regulate Me" these actions by First Premier and Citigroup must be at the top of the list . " Well, that was fast. Dodd introduces bill to freeze credit-card rates Although Dodd has ...
  2 weeks ago

• Interest Rate Freeze for Credit Cards?

  
  Bizzia — Authority: 141
  One of the unintended consequences of the Credit CARD Act passed in May was that credit card issuers have been rushing to tinker with terms before the February deadline. Consumers are getting the shaft on this as credit card issuers take this chance to jack up interest rates and add fees just because they can. At ...
  2 weeks ago

• Your Government In Action: Four-Year-Olds Now Qualify for Homebuyer Credit

  
  JammieWearingFool — Authority: 717
  Not only can your pre-schoolers now qualify for a first time home-buying loan, but if youve got some more kids in the pipeline they too may be qualify thanks to a helping hand from Senator Christopher Dodd.They may not be able to cross the street on their own or color within the lines, but many kids qualified for the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Open Thread: Obama in Cambridge

  
  The Confluence — Authority: 604
  President Obama was in town yesterday, and I didn’t even know he was coming. I didn’t see anything about it when I was writing my news post yesterday, so I was surprised when one of my students told me about it. Obama was at MIT to visit labs that are working on green energy. In a visit to the Massachusetts ...
  2 weeks ago

• Batchelor: He Ain’t Heavy, Really

  
  RBO — Authority: 557
  John Batchelor writes on his blog:Dodd The Burden POTUS flies to Stamford, Connecticut to raise money from Wall Street hedgies for the lonely, weary, troubled, and far, far side-stepped Chris Dodd, chair of Senate Banking, potentate of the lurid and piratical hedgies and the zombie banks. Dodd has been down [...]
  2 weeks ago

• “People on Capitol Hill, they watch the news”

  
  Front Row Washington — Authority: 666
  President Barack Obama, on a campaigning blitz for fellow Democrats facing tough fights to stay in office, or get there, is trying to tie the state races to national issues to convince voters their ballot will have a broader impact. “People on Capitol Hill, they watch the news,” he said. On Wednesday, the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Senatorial Hipocrisy!

  
  The Principal and Interest — Authority: 103
  I usually do not get too political on this blog, but I am red-hot mad about something I heard on NBC’s Meet the Press this morning.  David Gregory was interviewing Senator Chris Dodd (D) Connecticut.  Dodd made a statement that absolutely infuriated me. Watch this very short interview or read the transcript ...
  3 weeks ago

• Connecticut for Lieberman? Not. So. Fast.

  
  CNN Political Ticker — Authority: 849
  Sen. Chris Dodd is facing a tough re-election bid in Connecticut. (CNN) – Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman lost the Democratic primary in 2006 but won the November election anyway by forming a third party and siphoning votes from Republicans who didn’t want progressive Democratic candidate Ned Lamont to take ...
  3 weeks ago

• Reform or Legislative Obscenity?

  
  The BRAD BLOG — Authority: 132
  Guest blogged by Ernest A. Canning As recounted in a front-page article in The New York Times , on the strength of a single "yes" from a member of the Party of No, President Barack Obama described the 14 to 9 Senate Finance Committee vote in favor of the Baucus health care bill as "a critical milestone," adding, ...
  3 weeks ago

• If Olympia Had Been a Man, Max Baucus Would Be a Snowe Blower

  
  HYSTERICAL RAISINS — Authority: 496
  From Ezra Klein at The Washington Post : The list of senators charged with merging the Finance and HELP bills into the legislation that will actually come to a vote on the Senate floor is vanishingly small , and every participant is there for a reason. Harry Reid will preside. Max Baucus, chairman of the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Consumer Advocates Fear Missed Opportunity for Bank Reform

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 782
  House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank (D-Mass.) (WDCpix) As a House committee begins tackling major financial regulatory reform, consumer advocates find themselves shaking their heads over why something that should have been a slam dunk — reining in the financial industry in the wake of the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Rell Says Taxpayer-Funded Study Involved Zero Politics; But E-Mails Between Prof And Moody Suggest Otherwise

  
  Capitol Watch — Authority: 666
  Republican Gov. M. Jodi Rell was absolute in her denial Friday that UConn professor Kenneth Dautrichs $220,000 contract with her administration for a government-efficiency study had been misused to provide her with political advice. "Zero of that was political, Rell said. After Democrats questioned the taxpayer-funded ...
  4 weeks ago

• Thank You, Senator Shelby!

  
  The Bull Speaks! — Authority: 110
  “Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala., ranking Republican on the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, made a request for a congressional probe to committee Chairman Christopher Dodd, D-Conn.The letter comes after the Senate voted 83-7 Monday to cut off the group from Housing and Urban Development grants. ...
  8 weeks ago

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