Word: marching
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...After meeting GM executives in Germany on March 6th, Zu Guttenberg said there were still "many questions that need to be cleared up." A few days later he suggested that insolvency might be a better solution for Opel than a state bailout. (See pictures...
...that some of the hand-wringing came neither from flibbertigibbets nor from opportunists. Some came from Warren Buffett, whose patient ability to take the long view has made him the wealthiest investor in America. Buffett was - and is - an Obama supporter, but he took to the airwaves on March 9 to try to seize the young President's attention away from health care and education and energy and refocus it back onto the economy. Warning that Obama's agenda has become too sprawling and provocative, Buffett admonished, "Job 1 is to win the war, the economic...
...Another unexcitable voice, from the laconic flatlands of North Dakota - Senator Kent Conrad - warned on March 10 that Obama's $3.6 trillion budget is already in trouble on Capitol Hill. Democrats may be in power, but they aren't all in agreement with Obama's do-it-all-now approach to solving the nation's most persistent problems. "Anybody who thinks it will be easy to get the votes on the budget in the conditions that we face is smoking something," Conrad declared...
...HELP Committee will have its own schedule on the prevention and wellness provisions as well as the parts of the bill involving the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (known as ERISA), which regulates employer-offered health-insurance plans. Rockefeller will first hold his own series of hearings in March and early April on quality, long-term care and the importance of a competitive and open bidding process...
...that no pork would fatten his budgets once he got past the $410 billion omnibus spending bill with its 8,570 earmarks. By promising higher standards for hiring, tighter controls on spending and greater transparency in execution, Obama set himself up to let people down. Consider Orszag's March 10 trip to Capitol Hill to testify before the Senate Finance Committee. Senators are intrigued by Obama's proposed 10-year, $634 billion "down payment" on health-care reform, but Orszag pointedly avoided going into detail. "You will not be receiving definitive answers from me on exactly what the Administration does...