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...Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson thinks he got hammered on Capitol Hill Tuesday morning for not doing enough to stem the tide of foreclosures, he's lucky he wasn't at the public library in Miami Gardens, Fla., Tuesday night. More than 200 homeowners facing foreclosure were hooking up with their lenders to hash out mortgage modifications, and they had some choice words for what they view as Washington's lack of help. "Paulson and the rest of them don't give a damn about what's happening to us," said Angela Butler, 49, a school custodian who, after going...
...same rules. In September, Lehman Brothers, a major cog in this system, filed for Chapter 11. In one sense the process worked as designed--much of Lehman lives on under the names Barclays and Nomura. But the resulting run on the financial system sent Ben Bernanke and Hank Paulson scurrying in panic to Capitol Hill to ask for a $700 billion bailout...
...proposed auto-industry bailout was discussed, however. Paulson met with General Motors chief Rick Wagoner in October, and he held conversations with Keith Hennessey, the head of Bush's National Economic Council (NEC), Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez and others over the phone in the days after the election. Yet there was not sufficient disagreement between the men to warrant a full meeting...
There are two versions of what happened next. One camp says Treasury Secretary Paulson then decided not to back the plan after all. Other sources on the Hill and elsewhere familiar with the debate say Paulson supported the plan, but the White House killed it. Democrats contend that the White House is clamping down on Paulson's previous willingness to do big, expensive interventions. The Treasury Department declined to comment, but the senior official dismissed the talk of White House-Treasury battles as "stupid." Paulson may get grilled on the fight over the FDIC mortgage plan during his appearance before...
...there are to be any fights over the financial rescue plans between the incoming and outgoing Presidents' economic teams, they haven't started in earnest yet. Paulson has spoken twice thus far with a representative of Obama's transition team, once in person and once on the phone. The face-to-face meeting took place in Paulson's office for an hour on Nov. 10, with Paulson bringing Obama's team up to speed on details of pending decisions. This week Obama's transition team is expected to establish offices in the building and to begin digging more deeply into...