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...baby and is enrolled in nursing school. "I just have to get her through that," Stevens explained. So after several sleepless nights, she decided to go see Wagoner and file for bankruptcy, which stalled the foreclosure process. Now Stevens is hoping that Obama's new program will persuade the mortgage company to reduce her debt to the current value of the house...
...speech full of criticism for President Barack Obama's stimulus plan, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal singled out one program for particular scorn. "Instead of monitoring volcanoes, what Congress should be monitoring is the eruption of spending in Washington," Jindal said, deriding the $140 million appropriated to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) for "something called volcano-monitoring" as one of the most egregious bits of pork to lard up the $787 billion stimulus package. But to those who live under the looming threat of flowing lava, it was a poor punch line. "Does the governor have a volcano in his backyard...
...possession of weapons of mass destruction in the United States and abroad. In particular, Carter worked toward the removal of nuclear weapons from parts of the former Soviet Union and managed military planning during the U.S.’s response to North Korea’s growing nuclear program in 1994. Carter also oversaw the Department of Defense’s Counterproliferation Initiative and managed the reform of DOD’s national security export controls. His colleagues at the Kennedy School said they were optimistic about his upcoming tenure in DC. “The Belfer Center...
...Lost Decade.” Over the following years, Japan injected capital into banks that were likely to be insolvent so that they could stay open without dealing with the reality of their liabilities. This story sounds grimly similar to the Troubled Assets Relief Program, by which the Treasury handed $700 billion to the nation’s banks with little positive result. The consequences of the Japanese—and hence our—rescue plan, according to Adam Posen of the Peterson Institute of International Economics, “is that the banks’ top management simply...
...Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pension Committee, which is convening the meetings. Obama's budget also draws some battle lines on these issues: the White House, for instance, doesn't support an individual mandate as Kennedy and Baucus do. Then there's the question of whether the program can really be shoehorned into the $634 billion 10-year budget figure that Obama has proposed; some have estimated that it would take at minimum $1 trillion over 10 years. And while everyone in the room has marveled at how congenial the discussions have been, the hardest part is yet to come...