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...Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson thinks he got hammered on Capitol Hill Tuesday morning for not doing enough to stem the tide of foreclosures, he's lucky he wasn't at the public library in Miami Gardens, Fla., Tuesday night. More than 200 homeowners facing foreclosure were hooking up with their lenders to hash out mortgage modifications, and they had some choice words for what they view as Washington's lack of help. "Paulson and the rest of them don't give a damn about what's happening to us," said Angela Butler, 49, a school custodian who, after going...
...chance to right the relationship - his understated, consensual style will play well in Beijing, and he will probably try to get China into big-power clubs such as the G-8. Yet the combination of a Democratic President and a Democratic Congress may mean China hawks on Capitol Hill will feel bold enough to smack Beijing on Tibet and other human-rights issues...
...Senate Judiciary Committee inquiry is just one of many legal challenges the Bush White House is facing during its final days in office. The Administration's terrorism policies and legal actions are also being examined with skeptical eyes in federal courts, on Capitol Hill and in ethics offices of the Justice Department itself. Many civil rights activists are hoping that more challenges will follow once President-elect Barack Obama takes office in January. (See pictures of how Obama's election energized the heart of the civil rights movement...
...same year that Obama came to the Senate. But the two have since become close. Daschle's former chief of staff, Pete Rouse, went to work in the same role for the freshman Senator from Illinois and was invaluable in helping him learn the arcane folkways of the Capitol. Obama once told me, "My chief of staff in the Senate, Pete Rouse, Tom Daschle's old chief of staff, is as well connected and well known and as popular and as smart and savvy a person as there is on Capitol Hill...
...That idea, however, is not very popular with the Republicans' counterparts on Capitol Hill. "Both Speaker [Nancy] Pelosi and Reid have raised concerns about that," says Jim Manley, a senior adviser to Reid. "It robs the industry's future to pay for the present. We shouldn't have to choose." And unfortunately for Detroit, automakers would need congressional approval to access those funds on an emergency basis...