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...FDIC's concern about the fragility of the system extends to other agencies. On Sept. 23, while lobbying Congress for $700 billion to lift bad loans out of the financial system in hopes of restarting lending between banks, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson downplayed another, more extreme approach to shoring things up. "Some said we should just stick capital in the banks, take preferred stock in the banks," Paulson said. "That's what you do when you have failure. This is about success...
...enough to finance a post-merger restructuring of Chrysler. GM is also publicly committed to delivering the new electric Volt automobile before end of 2010 and closing Chrysler plants and technical centers to save cash could violate the spirit of $25 bilion in loan guarantees approved by Congress last month to help American carmakers rebuild - and which emphasized job creation and preservation in the industry...
...thing we know as political scientists is that demography is not destiny,” she added. Fiorina, the author of “Divided Government,” discussed split-ticket voters that intentionally choose one party for president and another for Congress, taking this path because of its perceived benefits. More than 80 faculty members, graduate and undergraduate students, and residents of the community packed the conference room at CGIS for the panel. “American politics looks very obscure to me. This is why I want to come here,” said Stefano Versace...
Which is why it's difficult for me to say that I think she's wrong about what could become her son's most important legacy: a hate-crimes bill before Congress called the Matthew Shepard Act. The bill would expand, far too aggressively, the two existing federal hate-crimes laws. One is from 1968; it allows the Federal Government to prosecute crimes committed on the basis of race, religion and national origin when the victim is engaged in public activities like going to school or eating at a restaurant or attending a concert. The other is from...
...alcoholism. And businesses are finding out that they are better off giving them treatment and buying insurance that covers their treatment because if you can keep them well and get them their medicine, you add to their productivity and to your workforce productivity. This is your last term in Congress. How do you hope your colleagues will take up this fight after you leave? There are many things that I would still love to be doing, which makes my departure so hard. I would think the next thing to do is to introduce national legislation to start a program...