Word: democratization
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...with interest, the $10 billion that taxpayers gave it in October. It's making bets and taking risks again (most of the profits came from Goldman's trading operations), which is what capitalism is about. "Is there a law in the United States that you can't make profits?" Democrat Paul Kanjorski, a senior member of the House Financial Services Committee, asked the day of the earnings report...
...farms in your district?" In Washington, Representative Dennis Moore, a six-term Democrat, fields that question all the time. People see that he's from Kansas and they jump to certain conclusions. But Moore's district is USDA-prime suburbia, more John Updike than L. Frank Baum, mile after mile of trim lawns, Panera Breads, Best Buys and carpooling parents. "What we grow," Moore likes to answer, "is a lot of small business...
...leaders of his party as they push ahead with a $1 trillion-plus overhaul of the nation's health-care system. Already this year, Moore has supported a huge spending package to stimulate the economy and a bill to cap carbon emissions. That's an aggressive agenda for a Democrat in a Republican-leaning district. As he looks toward 2010, the last thing Moore needs is a revolt of small-business owners. Yet they are among the constituencies targeted to pony up for expanded health coverage through new payroll taxes and a surtax on high incomes...
...Tapped as TARP special inspector general by President George W. Bush in November 2008, even though he is reportedly a Democrat...
...major means by which lawmakers hope to achieve universal health coverage - which is one of the reasons that governors, whose budgets are already straining under the program's growing costs, are so wary of the idea. "It depends on what's being proposed," says Pennsylvania's Ed Rendell, a Democrat. "These could essentially be unfunded mandates, and would be enormously destructive to state budgets...