Senate Seat Is Latest Stop On Bennet’s Unlikely Ride
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on January 26th, 2009 5:31 am by HL
Senate Seat Is Latest Stop On Bennet’s Unlikely Ride
Michael Bennet has been sleeping in his mother’s Woodley Park house and taking the Metro to a borrowed conference room in the Hart Senate Office Building to meet with staff members, who are also on loan.
Financial Institutions May Need Additional Funds, Biden Says
Banks and other financial institutions may need more than the $700 billion in public money that has already been approved to repair the nation’s feeble credit system, Vice President Biden and congressional Democrats said yesterday.
Fed May Gain More Financial Oversight
Congress is moving to create strong new oversight of the financial sector that would likely give the Federal Reserve authority to examine the workings of a wide range of companies in an attempt to address one of the key failures that led to the financial crisis.
Obama Using His Personal Appeal to Put Change Into Motion
If George W. Bush saw himself as a CEO president, an efficient “decider” who relied on an administration of like-minded thinkers to get things done, President Obama is proving something else altogether. In his first week in office, Obama is giving clear signs that he is willing to trade on his own…
