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...Shouldn't there at least be equal time for our Bill of Obligations?' CLARENCE THOMAS, Supreme Court Justice, during a forum with high school students about the Bill of Rights...
...want to be a part of the team,” said last year’s club team co-president David B. Kopelman ’09 of the old JV program, “and we really did not think the JV program was fitting that bill.” According to Kopleman, by the end of the JV season, typically only four or five players would participate in the games. Organized as a club sport, the new team has more freedom than an official, athletic department-sponsored team, according to many of its members...
...Senate banking committee chairman Chris Dodd of Connecticut, facing daunting odds for reelection in 2010 and determined to show his independence from Wall Street, has produced a tough bill that would largely prevent issuers like Bank of America, Citibank, JP Morgan Chase, Capital One and American Express from raising rates on customers even when cardholders miss payments or their credit rating tanks. "Americans do not deserve to be pushed down the economic ladder by credit card companies," Dodd said as he rolled out the bill, "It's wrong, it's unfair, and it must...
...threat would carry more weight if the banks weren't so politically vulnerable right now. "They're trying to figure out the best way to screw the people that are bailing them out," says one Democratic leadership aide. "It's unacceptable." Even if they can't force through a bill as tough as they would like, top Democrats promise to make life painful for the banks...
...Capitol Hill, though, and neither side expects a clean victory. Moderate Democrats and those with major banks with big presences in their states are receiving particular attention from the banking lobby. These include Tom Carper of Delaware and Tim Johnson of South Dakota: Johnson voted against Dodd's bill in committee and Carper is a longtime bank backer...