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...involvement of the Cambridge City Council. It remains unclear what effect the council’s resolution will have on the surveillance initiative. In Brookline, a town that also falls under the program, local officials voted to proceed with the program on a trial basis, according to Nancy Daly, chairwoman of the Brookline Selectmen. “I would imagine we can stop it...It’s a matter of the Brookline police department voluntarily going along with it,” Daly said in a phone interview with The Crimson. Councillor Craig A. Kelley said that the Council...
...incoming chairwoman also said she believes strongly in the need for a broad investor literacy program, where local SEC offices work with local groups to get the word out about safe and unsafe investments...
Emanuel was also blamed for the Obama team's failure to notify incoming Senate Intelligence Committee chairwoman Dianne Feinstein before leaking the choice of former Congressman Leon Panetta for Central Intelligence Agency director--a gesture that might have averted Feinstein's huffy declaration that she would have preferred an "intelligence professional...
What a difference a credit crunch can make. In the past year, the FDIC has become the most active dealmaker in the banking industry, taking over 25 banks in 2008, up from just three the year before, and auctioning them off to the highest bidder. Its chairwoman, Sheila Bair, who was early in warning about rising foreclosures, has become a key policymaker in helping resolve the nation's financial crisis. At her urging, Congress in October upped the limit on FDIC insurance, albeit temporarily, to $250,000 from $100,000. The agency is staffing up too, and plans to hire...
...advantage, though, that they can be put in place quickly. There's also the more ideological, if still possibly valid, argument that they don't encourage the growth of bureaucracy. And recent empirical research - some of it by Christina Romer, the University of California, Berkeley, economist who will be chairwoman of Obama's Council of Economic Advisers - indicates that tax cuts have been quite effective as stimulus in the past. All of which helps explain why 40% of the Obama stimulus consists of tax reductions...