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...York Fed even went so far as to warn Treasury staffers that the bonuses were a hot-button issue. In the past, the memo says, the "retention," or bonus, issue has drawn the attention of both Capitol Hill staffers and the media. The New York Federal Reserve forwarded further details of the plan to Treasury on March 5 and even more specifics in a March 9 memo, which Treasury officials had previously said was their first detailed warning of the bonus trouble...
Despite all those issues, it is still possible that a climate bill could reach the legislative finish line before health care. There is a broad consensus on Capitol Hill that something needs to be done, and Republicans like John McCain and Lindsey Graham are anxious to get a bill passed this year. And while the Administration has not held an energy summit as it did for health care, Obama has had an easier time hiring and confirming staff on the environmental front than on the economy or health-care fronts. For example, Obama's special adviser for green jobs...
...politically: a liberal Democratic Senator from the Pacific Northwest and a conservative Democratic Congressman from the South. But Oregon's Ron Wyden and Tennessee's Jim Cooper are convinced they have the answer to the nation's health-care crisis - if only they could get the key players on Capitol Hill to give their radical plan a hearing. "There's a real opportunity for a philosophical truce here that you didn't have in 1993," the last time Washington attempted to overhaul the health-care system, says Wyden. "Republicans, who didn't accept the idea of coverage for everybody...
...Despite those doubts, Wyden and Cooper continue to lobby the committee chairmen and ranking members of the five panels that have jurisdiction over the issue on Capitol Hill. "We want to be team players," Wyden says. But they also note that time is quickly running out if lawmakers are to meet their self-imposed deadline of having a bill passed out of both chambers before the August recess. So they are watching the informal negotiations that are underway on both sides of the Capitol carefully. All they need, they say, is the right opening. Or at least a seat...
...from companies like wind-turbine-maker Nordex. Outside of Charleston, the Toyota plant was bringing down production but avoiding major layoffs by giving workers other tasks like training workshops. Going into the recession, each of the six cities had at least one built in advantage: either being a state capitol (Bismarck, Charleston and Cheyenne), hosting a big university (like Arkansas State in Jonesboro and West Virginia University in Morgantown) or sitting on top of a valuable natural resource (natural gas in Casper, coal in West Virginia and oil in North Dakota...