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...budget, a highly unusual move that would strip the bill from the usual committees of jurisdiction and give the program immunity from filibusters in the Senate. "I want them to having hearings. I want to lay it all out and look at it," Senator Ben Nelson, a Nebraska Democrat, said on Tuesday in explaining why he opposes the idea...
...suggestions managed to emerge from the sea of anger, though it remains to be seen how feasible any of them are. Senator Evan Bayh, an Indiana Democrat, said he'd like AIG to enter some form of bankruptcy, "because when you go into bankruptcy, contracts are abrogated all the time." He was referring to AIG CEO Edward Liddy's claim that the bonuses were contractual and therefore had to be paid under the law. (See the top 10 bankruptcies...
...Politics Director’s Dinner. Shirley Temple in hand, you prattle on with a state representative’s chief of staff. As he gushes about Governor Deval L. Patrick ’78, you realize—surprise, surprise—he’s a Democrat. Do you tell him you think Patrick’s speeches sound as corny as a 1950’s jingle? No, you just smile and nod—no reason to rock the boat, you think...
...borrow from Keynes again, in the long term, we'll be dead, and in the short term, the LIBOR rate - that esoteric measure of financial vigor - has been creeping in the wrong direction again. "The public really needs to know what he thinks is important," says a senior Democrat. "There's no prioritization...
...HELP Committee's top Republican, Mike Enzi of Wyoming; and Senators Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia and Orrin Hatch of Utah, the chairman and ranking member, respectively, of the Finance Committee's Subcommittee on Health Care. In recent months Senator Chris Dodd of Connecticut, a top HELP Committee Democrat, was added as Kennedy's understudy as the Massachusetts Democrat sought treatment for brain cancer. Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad of North Dakota and his GOP counterpart Judd Gregg of New Hampshire were also added after President Obama included his $634 billion outline for health-care reform...