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• Sen. Richard Shelby Blocks 70 Nominees, Demands Billions in Earmarks

  
  CafeSentido.com — Authority: 426
  Truth-First.com :: Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL) has been revealed to be placing a “blanket hold” on 70 of Pres. Obama’s nominees, while demanding an estimated $40 billion in earmarks for his state. The revelation,  published yesterday in CongressDaily , is being called one of the most flagrant examples of ...
  3 days ago

• Market Manipulation 101 or How to Rob Fort Knox in front of a Congressional Panel

  
  The Confluence — Authority: 594
  Every day, as the AIG saga unfolds,  I have to wonder if there is any vestige of a functional regulatory scheme left in this country.  I’ve already decided  that there is no shred of decency left in any one whose hand came close to unraveling the insurance giant and its deals. I know this is an area where eyes ...
  5 days ago

• my|heroes - The Ninoy and Cory phone

  
  The Philippines and Beyond — Authority: 121
  At the Joint Congressional Oversight Committee hearing yesterday at the Senate of the Philippines , I saw the my|heroes phone by my|phone, a locally made phone, from Sister Mary Jo of St. Scholastica’s College and Jun Lozada, a controversial witness to the foiled the NBN-ZTE deal. There are two kinds or ...
  1 week ago

• Elizabeth Warren Fights for the CFPA

  
  Dollars & Sense blog — Authority: 425
  A couple of recent pieces about Elizabeth Warren,chair of the TARP Congressional Oversight Panel, and her efforts to make sure that the Consumer Financial Protection Agency survives Senate efforts to gut or eliminate it. First, from HuffPo : Will The Banks Win Again? Bailout Watchdog Rallies Support For ...
  2 weeks ago

• Holding Treasurys TARP Exit Strategy to a Higher Standard

  
  DailyFinance — Authority: 786
  When Congress passed the Troubled Assets Relief Program in October, 2008, it also created the Congressional Oversight Panel (COP), a five-member board charged with the responsibility to "review the current state of financial markets and the regulatory system." In a report to Congress released on Jan. 14, COP says the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Jan 14, 2010

  
  Rising in Phoenix — Authority: 129
  Elizabeth Warren – The Coming Collapse of the Middle Class Congressional Oversight Panel Assesses TARP Exit Strategy January 14, 2010 Divestment Principles Sometimes at Odds and Broad so Measuring Success Will Be Problematic Even After Every Asset is Sold, Unwinding the Implicit Guarantee Created by TARP ...
  3 weeks ago

• UN Renovation and Construction: Issues for Congressional Oversight?

  
  The Foundry: Conservative Policy News. — Authority: 772
  The United Nations is in the midst of a $1.87 billion renovation project. Few argue that the U.N. building isn’t in vital need of an overhaul – it is falling apart at the seams and New York schools no longer allow students to visit the U.N. building because of its f ailure (perhaps inability is a better word) to ...
  3 weeks ago

• A Bad Time For This Watchdog To Be Pouting

  
  Understanding Government — Authority: 143
  Government Executive’s Elizabeth Newell dishes on Congress’s watchdog committee: Less than six months after pledging to reverse the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee’s history of rancorous partisanship, the relationship between the chairman, Rep. Edolphus Towns, D-N.Y., and ranking member Rep. ...
  4 weeks ago

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