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11/30/2010 Senate Passes Sweeping Food-Safety Bill
After stalling for more than a year, a sweeping food-safety bill passed with bipartisan support in the Senate on Tuesday, paving the way for increased federal inspections and other preventative measures. The vote was 73 to 25. Though the bill has yet to be reconciled with a previous version passed by the House in July 2009, there has been some indication that the House will adopt the Senate's bill, a senior Democratic aide tells HuffPost. The Food Safety Modernization Act would strengthen the power of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, which oversees 80 percent of the nation's food supply, vastly improving its ability to ensure safety. The law will focus on the areas of food-borne illness prevention, detection and response. It will also protect American consumers from unsafe food made overseas by subjecting imported foods to the same standards as food produced in the United States. The bill is thought to be the most significant overhaul of the food-safety system in decades, and, as noted by Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) on the Senate floor on Monday, it has attracted uncommonly broad support. "I realize that the bipartisan road is not always easy to follow, but I can confidently say when we approach legislation in this manner, we often end up with a better, stronger and more responsive law in the end," said Dodd. "I think this bill is an example of just that." The $1.4 billion measure has the backing of Congressional Democrats and has been touted by the likes of environmental activist Michael Pollan, who, in a New York Times op-ed on Sunday, called the measure "the best opportunity in a generation to improve the safety of the American food supply." (Huffington Post)
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posted: 4/18/11                   0       2
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7/21/2010 Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act
"An Act to promote the financial stability of the United States by improving accountability and transparency in the financial system, to end "too big to fail", to protect the American taxpayer by ending bailouts, to protect consumers from abusive financial services practices, and for other purposes." (Wikipedia)
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posted: 8/1/11                   0       1
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6/22/2010 Connecticut heads up Google Wi-Fi probe
Earlier on Monday French government officials announced that a review of data collected there revealed that e-mail addresses and passwords were recorded by Google, although as Search Engine Land's Danny Sullivan points out, the nature of Google's collection means that anything sent over an unsecured wireless connection could have been collected. Google has argued that the data that was collected was "fragmented" because Street View cars were moving and the equipment used to record data was changing wireless channels several times a second. It has also said that it collected data inadvertently, and the company's intent will be a key part of the legal battle between Google, the state investigations, and a series of lawsuits. (CNN)
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posted: 6/22/10                   0       21
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5/12/2010 Alan Grayson On The Passage Of The Partial "Audit The Fed" Amendment
But our work isn't quite done. The Senate audit provision isn't as strong as what we passed in the House. The Senate provision has only a one-time audit, whereas what we passed in the House would allow audits going forward. There will be a conference committee that will merge the provisions from the two bills. (Zero Hedge)
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posted: 5/24/10                   0       19
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5/6/2010 Audit the Fed Amendment Modified – Allows Fed To Keep Secrets
Ron Paul: “Bernie Sanders has sold out and sided with Chris Dodd to gut Audit the Fed in the Senate. His “compromise” is what the Administration and banking interests want: they’ll allow the TARP and TALF to be audited, but no transparency of the FOMC, discount window operations or agreement with foreign central banks. We need to take action and stop this!” (Ron Paul)
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posted: 5/27/10                   0       19
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2/23/2010 Secret AIG Document Shows Goldman Sachs Minted Most Toxic CDOs
When a congressional panel convened a hearing on the government rescue of American International Group Inc. in January, the public scolding of Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner got the most attention. Lawmakers said the former head of the New York Federal Reserve Bank had presided over a backdoor bailout of Wall Street firms and a coverup. Geithner countered that he had acted properly to avert the collapse of the financial system. A potentially more important development slipped by with less notice, Bloomberg Markets reports in its April issue. Representative Darrell Issa, the ranking Republican on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, placed into the hearing record a five-page document itemizing the mortgage securities on which banks such as Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Societe Generale SA had bought $62.1 billion in credit-default swaps from AIG. These were the deals that pushed the insurer to the brink of insolvency -- and were eventually paid in full at taxpayer expense. The New York Fed, which secretly engineered the bailout, prevented the full publication of the document for more than a year, even when AIG wanted it released. That lack of disclosure shows how the government has obstructed a proper accounting of what went wrong in the financial crisis, author and former investment banker William Cohan says. “This secrecy is one more example of how the whole bailout has been done in such a slithering manner,” says Cohan, who wrote “House of Cards” (Doubleday, 2009), about the unraveling of Bear Stearns Cos. “There’s been no accountability.”

E-mails between Fed and AIG officials that Issa released in January show that the efforts to keep Schedule A under wraps came from the New York Fed. Revelation of the messages contributed to the heated atmosphere at the House hearing. “What date did you know there was a coverup?” Republican Congressman Brian Bilbray of California demanded of Geithner. Lawmakers used the word coverup more than a dozen times as they peppered Geithner with questions. (Bloomberg)
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posted: 7/3/10                   0       5
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12/28/2009 Financial Industry Invests Heavily in Key Lawmakers
(Originally published Nov. 16, 2009; Updated with third quarter Senate data Dec. 28, 2009) As Congress considers legislation to reregulate the financial services industry in response to the greatest economic downturn since the Great Depression, the industry is focusing campaign contributions on the congressional leadership and members of the committees crafting reform legislation. Between November 2008 (when the current election cycle began) and Sept. 30, 2009, the financial industry – including banks, investment firms, insurance companies and real estate companies – has given $48.3 million in campaign contributions to members of Congress and their leadership political action committees, according to data provided by the Center for Responsive Politics (www.opensecrets.org).

Between November 2008...and Sept. 30, 2009, the financial industry...has given $48.3 million in campaign contributions to members of Congress and their leadership political action committees... ...The 94 members of the two finance committees have received $16.9 million overall. The top 10 committee recipients include the Democratic chairmen: Sen. Chris Dodd (Conn.) and Rep. Barney Frank (Mass.); and the ranking Republicans on the committees: Sen. Richard Shelby (Ala.) and Rep. Spencer Bachus (Ala.). (Public Citizen)
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posted: 8/1/11                   0       1
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7/9/2009 Two Authorities on Fed Advise Congress Against Expanding Its Power
“I do not know of any single clear example in which the Federal Reserve acted in advance to head off a crisis or a series of banking or financial failures,” said Allan H. Meltzer (New York Times)
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posted: 7/9/09                   0       11
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7/6/2009 Familiar Players in Health Bill Lobbying
Firms Are Enlisting Ex-Lawmakers, Aides

three of every four major health-care firms have at least one former insider on their lobbying payrolls (Washington Post)
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posted: 7/7/09                   0       10
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6/18/2009 Democrats to push through banking overhaul quickly
Democratic leaders have committed to enacting by the end of the year the biggest regulatory revision to the U.S. financial system since the 1930s

an undertaking so ambitious it has some lawmakers worried about missteps (Associated Press)
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posted: 6/18/09                   6       20
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6/18/2009 Geithner Defends Plan to Give Fed Stepped-Up Powers
Dodd, a Connecticut Democrat, quoted one critic's view that giving the central bank more power was like awarding a son a "bigger, faster car right after he crashed the family station wagon." (Bloomberg)
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posted: 6/19/09                   6       20
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6/16/2009 Federal Reserve to gain power under plan
Targets dangers to economy

The Federal Reserve, already arguably the most powerful agency in the U.S. government, will get sweeping new authority to regulate any company whose failure could endanger the U.S. economy and markets under the Obama administration's regulatory overhaul plan (Washington Times)
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posted: 6/16/09                   3       21
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6/15/2009 Details Set for Remake of Financial Regulations
At the center of the plan, which administration officials are referring to as a "white paper," is a move to remake powers of the Federal Reserve to oversee the biggest financial players, give the government the power to unwind and break up systemically important companies -- much like the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. does with failed banks -- and create a new regulator for consumer-oriented financial products (Wall Street Journal)
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posted: 6/19/09                   6       20
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6/10/2009 Obama Administration to Seek New Power for SEC on Executive Pay
to let shareholders vote on executive pay and make directors who set compensation more independent (Bloomberg)
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posted: 6/10/09                   4       29
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3/10/2009 Bernanke: Regulatory Overhaul Needed to Prevent Future Global Financial Shocks
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke has urged an overhaul of U.S. financial regulation aimed at smoothing out cyclical booms and busts in financial markets, signaling that the process of broadening government controls might translate to added oversight authority for the Fed (Council on Foreign Relations)
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posted: 6/17/09                   3       17
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2/4/2009 TARP Recipients Paid Out $114 Million for Politicking Last Year
The companies that have been awarded taxpayers' money from Congress's bailout bill spent $77 million on lobbying and $37 million on federal campaign contributions, Center finds. The return on investment: 258,449 percent (Communications)
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posted: 7/9/09                   0       13
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1/29/2009 Obama: Bonuses 'shameful'
“That is the height of irresponsibility,” Obama said before a meeting with Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner. “It is shameful. And part of what we’re going to need is for folks on Wall Street who are asking for help to show some restraint, and show some discipline and show some sense of responsibility.” (Politico)
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posted: 6/4/10                   0       6
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9/30/2008 U.S. Lawmakers Spurn Pleas From Leadership in Rejecting Bailout
A Bloomberg/Los Angeles Times poll last week showed that 55 percent of Americans were against using taxpayer money to rescue Wall Street, with 31 percent in favor.

Pelosi and Illinois Representative Rahm Emanuel, the Democratic Caucus chairman, were among leaders patrolling the House floor for support. (Bloomberg)
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posted: 6/4/10                   0       7
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9/23/2008 Bailout plan under fire
Paulson, Bernanke urge immediate action on $700B plan

cite fear of meltdown. But senators from both sides voice more questions than support.

Sen. Sherrod Brown, a liberal Democrat from Ohio, said calls from his constituents about the plan have been universally negative. He told the story of one constituent who drove to Washington. "He quite rightly asked why we were rushing to bailout companies whose leaders got rich gambling with other people's money," Brown said. Brown asked if Wall Street owed the rest of America an apology. Paulson, who served as CEO of Wall Street firm Goldman Sachs for seven years before becoming Treasury Secretary in 2006, pointed at both Wall Street and others for the nation's current crisis. "There is a lot of blame to go around," Paulson said. "A lot of blame [belongs] with big financial institutions that engaged in this irresponsible lending." But Paulson also said some blame rests with regulators, rating agencies and others

"people who made loans they shouldn't have made, people who took out loans they shouldn't have taken out." (CNN)
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posted: 5/4/09                   3       19
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9/23/2008 NO To The Paulson-Bernanke Derivatives Scam Bailout
Bail Out the American People, Not Wall Street! An Economic Recovery Strategy for Protectionists, Dirigists, Mercantilists, and Populists (Webster G. Tarpley)
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posted: 6/18/09                   5       22
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9/22/2008 Dirty Secret Of The Bailout: Thirty-Two Words That None Dare Utter
"Decisions by the Secretary pursuant to the authority of this Act are non-reviewable and committed to agency discretion, and may not be reviewed by any court of law or any administrative agency." (Huffington Post)
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posted: 6/5/09                   2       28
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9/7/2008 US Government Takes Over Mortgage Giants
US Government seizes control of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (ABC)
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posted: 7/29/09                   0       8
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6/20/2008 Obama Supports FISA Legislation, Angering Left
Sen. Barack Obama today announced his support for a sweeping intelligence surveillance law that has been heavily denounced by the liberal activists who have fueled the financial engines of his presidential campaign. (Washington Post)
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posted: 6/5/09                   1       28
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5/22/2008 Jim Johnson, Former Fannie Mae CEO, To Begin VP Search for Obama
Former Fannie Mae CEO Jim Johnson has been asked by Senator Barack Obama on Thursday to start the search for a viable Vice Presidential candidate.

A vice chairman of the private banking firm Perseus LLC, a position he has held since 2001. He is also a board member at Goldman Sachs, Gannett Company, Inc., a media holding group, KB Home, a home construction firm, Target Corporation, Temple-Inland, and UnitedHealth Group. (Trans World News)
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posted: 5/10/09                   1       18
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12/5/2007 Obama: Boost national service programs
Vastly expanding AmeriCorps, doubling Peace Corps among key proposals (MSNBC)
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posted: 6/5/09                   2       23
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4/19/2007 Dodd favors corporate tax for emissions: Estimated $50 billion tax revenues used to develop renewable energies
Sen. Chris Dodd, splitting with his Democratic presidential rivals over the best way to cut pollution and curb global warming, wants to tax corporations for their carbon dioxide emissions. "You have to have a price-driven strategy if you are going to succeed in this thing," Dodd said in a telephone interview Wednesday with The Associated Press. "Otherwise, I'm afraid it's just a lot of talk. People are trying to avoid the difficult decisions." (MSNBC)
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posted: 5/4/09                   2       11
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