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...TARP funds if the employee's family income exceeds $250,000. In support of the bill, Obama said he is eager to receive legislation "that will serve as a strong signal to the executives who run these firms that such compensation cannot be tolerated." The Senate plans to vote on the bill this week...
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...Once Congress has worked itself into a snit, there's no reasoning with them The best recourse, which the Obama Administration successfully employed, is to treat the House and Senate like a 2-year-old having a temper tantrum. Utter a few reassuring words: "Today's vote rightly reflects the outrage that so many feel over the lavish bonuses AIG provided its employees at the expense of taxpayers," Obama said in a statement Thursday after the House passed a bill to tax back 90% of the bonuses - a bill he later effectively came out against. It may also be necessary...
...lost the vote, Barak, the diminutive ex-general and decorated war hero, would likely have been driven out as party leader, his political career at an end. This way Barak stays in power, and Labor will get the ministries of defense, agriculture, industry, trade and welfare. But the cost has been high. One respected columnist, Ben Caspit in Maariv, wrote, "The Labor Party signed its own death certificate...