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Other speakers in Kirkland’s series have included Reverend Al Sharpton, Mass. Senator John Kerry, and former Chairman of the Democratic National Committee Howard Dean...
...need to grow, and to do that, they often need access to credit. While the ability of large firms to borrow has pretty much returned to normal, many smaller firms are still struggling to get the money they need from banks. It's a problem that even Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has talked about in recent weeks. The seeming solution: help get small, growing companies loans and the jobs will follow...
...cost. Members of his own party are talking of a war tax, underscoring their opposition to reinforcing the 68,000 U.S. troops now there. "If this war is important enough to expand and fight, then it ought to be important enough to pay for," says Wisconsin Representative David Obey, chairman of the House Appropriations Committee...
Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Obama’s top military adviser, made it clear last week on Charlie Rose that a full withdrawal date was not even part of the discussion. “The 2011 timeframe is out there as a goal for us to shoot for and to begin the transfer of security responsibility and the transition. It could be a lot of forces, it could be very few forces—we just don’t know...
Montana Senator Max Baucus, the powerful chairman of the Senate Finance Committee and a key player in health-care reform, has been involved with his share of feisty women. His second wife Wanda Minge was arrested in 2004 for fighting with a woman at a suburban Virginia garden store. (Minge was reportedly upset that she was not being helped by the staff at a garden supplies shop with loading mulch on to her car; the charges were eventually lowered to misdemeanor assault and a plea deal avoided prosecution.) The 2007 holiday season was the last time in their quarter-century...