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...Congress is fighting with both the administration that is leaving and the one that is coming about what should happen to the $350 billion left in the TARP. Most legislators do not seem to be happy about how Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson spent the first $350 billion. Too much of it got invested in banks and car companies. Not enough went to help mortgage holders...
...consumers who buy new vehicles and/or fuel-efficient hybrids. The desired incentives would be a combination of new incentives and extensions of credits already in the tax code. The National Automobile Dealers Association has made the incentives a top lobbying priority; new legislation has already been introduced in Congress. One proposal supported by Democratic Sen. Barbara Mikulski of Maryland and Republican Sen. Kit Bond of Missouri would permit new car buyers to deduct auto loan interest and sales tax on their personal income taxes. "We think temporarily making interest deductible on car loans would spur sales," says NADA economist Paul...
...what Barack Obama had in mind when he imagined the days leading up to his historic Inauguration. On Tuesday, the President-elect journeyed to Capitol Hill to try to avoid the possibility that his first act in office will be vetoing a bill passed by both houses of Congress...
...Obama found himself in that uncomfortable position because of the unpopularity of the $700 billion Wall Street bailout that Congress passed last fall to help stabilize the nation's ailing banks. Half of that money has already been used up by the Bush Administration, and with little indication that such usage has helped ease the flow of lending to consumers and businesses, members of Congress are loath to hand over the rest of the money without guarantees of greater oversight and transparency. And so Senate Democratic leaders are struggling to prevent their members from passing a Resolution of Disapproval...
...federal Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP) did not approve. After Pronovost was profiled in the New Yorker by Gawande in 2007, OHRP shut down data collection for the checklist study, claiming that it amounted to research being done without patients' informed consent. But the ensuing media attention spurred Congress to intervene, and Pronovost's program was allowed to continue and expand...