House Oversight

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• Emails: Fed Pressed AIG To Keep Bailout Details Under Wraps

  
  TPMMuckraker — Authority: 765
  The New York Fed pressured AIG in late 2008 to withhold from the public details about its massive and controversial payments to counter-parties, according to emails obtained by Bloomberg News. At the time, Timothy Geithner, now the Treasury Secretary, was New York Fed chair. The federal government was heavily ...
  15 hours ago

• New York Fed to AIG: Can You Keep a Secret?

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 178
  In 2008 the New York Federal Reserve Bank -- then chaired by current Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner -- urged American International Group (AIG) not to disclose to the public its Credit Default Swaps (CDS) settlement payments to global banks. AIG ultimately received $182.3 billion in bailout funds and credits from ...
  17 hours ago

• Trust Tim Geithner, Larry Summers, Barney Frank?

  
  NO QUARTER — Authority: 549
  Blank checks are the antithesis of good public policy. America can not allow the passage of time to lessen the outrage over the Obama administration’s Christmas Eve bonus to the financial sinkholes known as Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. Platitudes and posturing aside, the American taxpayer is being set up as never ...
  4 days ago

• Trust Tim Geithner, Larry Summers, Barney Frank?

  
  Sense on Cents — Authority: 444
  Blank checks are the antithesis of good public policy. America can not allow the passage of time to lessen the outrage over the Obama administration’s Christmas Eve bonus to the financial sinkholes known as Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. Platitudes and posturing aside, the American taxpayer is being set up as never ...
  1 week ago

• Rep. Dennis Kucinich Endorses Credit Cards That Don’t Cost You Your Legal Rights

  
  On The Hill — Authority: 511
  Amid a flurry of congressional activity to give Americans new protection related to credit cards and the wider financial services industry, a well-known progressive Democratic congressman is touting cards issued by specific firms for the safeguards they offer to consumers. Rep. Dennis Kucinich of Ohio announced ...
  1 week ago

• Feds try to buy back their own equipment

  
  Work Fanatic — Authority: 145
  Here’s an example of a benefits program that was maybe a little too generous. When the federal Bureau of Engraving and Printing (the group that designs our currency, among other things) needed to cut costs, it decided to consolidate some of its office printers. To ensure sensitive information doesn’t fall into ...
  2 weeks ago

• House oversight committee Launches Probe Of Alleged Contractor Payments To Taliban

  
  War On You: Breaking Alternative News — Authority: 499
  Source: TPM Muckraker Private security contractors in Afghanistan are being accused of paying protection money to warlords and the Taliban along convoy routes, prompting an investigation by a House oversight committee. Walter Pincus at the Washington Post has the story this morning. The staff of Rep. John ...
  3 weeks ago

• Kevin Brings the House Down

  
  CommLawBlog — Authority: 119
  On December 16 FHH’s Kevin Goldberg testified before the Subcommittee on Information Policy, Census, and the National Archive of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on the topic of “ History Museum or Records Access Agency? Defining and Fulfilling the Mission of the National Archives and ...
  3 weeks ago

• Kevins In The House!

  
  CommLawBlog — Authority: 119
  Kevin Goldberg To Testify Before House Subcommittee FHH’s own Kevin M. Goldberg will be testifying before the Subcommittee on Information Policy, Census and the National Archives of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on Wednesday, December 16, at 2 p.m.  The topic of the hearing is “History ...
  3 weeks ago

• Financial Reform Bill

  
  Night Bird's Fountain — Authority: 116
  On Friday, December 11, the House passed the Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (HR 4173) , a bill to overhaul and reform financial regulations. A short summary of the bills provisions can be read at the Reuters Factbox . From Speaker.gov : For eight years, President Bush and his Republican allies ...
  3 weeks ago

• Bank Of Americas Fraudulent Acquisition Of ML Back In The Congressional Spotlight Tomorrow

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 743
  Tomorrow at 10 am the House Oversight Committee will hold a hearing with SECs Robert Khuzami (oddly Mary Schapiro, together with Chris Cox, had been scheduled to appear initially, however "in a series of last minute negotiations, members settled on Khuzami") to discuss what the SEC has already found to be a criminal ...
  4 weeks ago

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