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

  
  War On You: Breaking Alternative News — Authority: 514
  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 ...
  6 days ago

• Kevin Brings the House Down

  
  CommLawBlog — Authority: 419
  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 ...
  6 days ago

• Kevins In The House!

  
  CommLawBlog — Authority: 419
  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 ...
  1 week ago

• Financial Reform Bill

  
  Night Bird's Fountain — Authority: 118
  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 ...
  1 week ago

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

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 739
  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 ...
  1 week ago

• Desirees (sure to be) Bad Day

  
  Swampland — Authority: 719
  Tomorrow morning at 10am on the third floor of the Cannon House Office building, Homeland Security Committee Chairman Bernie Thompson will convene a hearing examining "the security breach at the White House State Dinner on Tuesday, Nov. 24. The committee will look at deficiencies in security planning, actions taken to ...
  3 weeks ago

• Republicans accuse Obama of ACORN cover-up

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  House Republicans accused the Obama administration Tuesday of covering up criminal activities committed by the embattled community activist group ACORN, saying that the president has used the group as an illegal political tool to help himself and other Democrats get elected. "The current administration is fast ...
  3 weeks ago

• House Committee to Hold Hearing on Army Contracting Scandal

  
  The Fine Print: blog posts from OMBWatch — Authority: 135
  Back in August, I wrote a post on a WaPo article about George Raymond, a former Army official with the Communications-Electronic Command (CECOM), and allegations that Raymond steered government contracts to his friends and then broke ethics rules by taking a comfortable job in the contracting industry afterwards. ...
  3 weeks ago

• Same-sex partner benefits bill passes House committee

  
  Work Fanatic — Authority: 145
  After much debate over gay rights and extending benefits packages, a House committee just passed legislation that would provide health care and other benefits to same-sex domestic partners of federal employees. By a vote of 23 to 12, the U.S. House Oversight and Government Reform Committee passed the 2009 Domestic ...
  3 weeks ago

• Same-sex partner benefits bill passes House committee

  
  HRMorning.com — Authority: 430
  After much debate over gay rights and extending benefits packages, a House committee just passed legislation that would provide health care and other benefits to same-sex domestic partners of federal employees. By a vote of 23 to 12, the U.S. House Oversight and Government Reform Committee passed the 2009 Domestic ...
  3 weeks ago

• Eric Holder Won’t Investigate His Radical Friends at ACORN

  
  Big Government — Authority: 814
  Attorney General Eric Holder has made it abundantly clear he has absolutely no interest in investigating his radical friends at ACORN. Holder’s Justice Department released a legal opinion last week that allows the Obama administration to ignore the will of Congress which has voted overwhelmingly to suspend ...
  3 weeks ago

• AIG, ex-CEO Greenberg reach pact to settle disputes (Reuters)

  
  Relevant News — Authority: 178
  Reuters – AIG and former chief executive Maurice “Hank” Greenberg have reached an agreement to bury a long-standing, bitter legal battle and the insurer will turn over materials the former boss can use to write his memoir, as well as prized photographs and a Persian carpet. Here is the original post:  ...
  4 weeks ago

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