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They couldn't see each other because the balloon was between them, so they had to yell back and forth. As the giant aircraft careened wildly over the roofs of Paris and the two men frantically shoveled straw into the fire that kept it flying, the marquis became more and more hysterical. "We must land now!" he yelled. "We must land now!" Pilātre stayed icy calm. "Look, d'Arlandes," he said. "Here we are above Paris. There's no possible danger for you. Are you taking this all in?" But the marquis couldn't take it in. When...
...idea for an excise tax on insurers was put forth by Finance Committee member Senator John Kerry and modeled on a similar 1994 proposal from Senator Bill Bradley. President Obama has said as recently as July 22 that he's open to capping the tax benefit on health plans in some form. (Read "The Five Biggest Hurdles to Health-Care Reform...
...estimates for programs offered by the FDIC, federal money for Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and other institutions on top of $7.4 trillion in TARP and other Treasury aid. A spokesperson for the Treasury Department quickly called the numbers flawed, making this the latest in the back and forth between Barofsky's oversight office - which currently has 35 ongoing criminal and civil investigations of suspected accounting, securities and mortgage fraud - and the Treasury Department over the handling of TARP disbursements. (Read a skimmer of Barofsky's "Initial Report to Congress...
...Back & Forth...
...Clinton Administration did in 1993 and '94 - and do the opposite. Where Bill and Hillary Clinton delivered a byzantine bill of more than 1,300 pages to Capitol Hill, only to see it shredded once it got there, Obama has kept his distance from the fine print. He set forth a few ambitious goals: expanding coverage, reining in health-care spending, improving medical quality. And then he left it to Congress to develop a plan that could win the votes necessary to pass...