Cain jokes about Anita Hill
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on November 12th, 2011 5:35 am by HL
UPDATE: There is this video from a Time Magazine Person of the Year panel that happened earlier this week where Anita Hill responds to a question about Herman Cain:
People believe I follow politics more closely than I actually do follow politics. I’ll simply say there are some serious issues out there and we all know what they are, and I think any one of us could speculate about what the outcome would be, but none of us know.
President Obama called the Democratic and Republican chairmen of Congress’s special deficit reduction supercommittee Friday and urged them to reach a deal, as the panel’s deadline for agreeing on a strategy to slash the nation’s debt rapidly approaches.
In separate phone calls, Obama urged Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) and Rep. Jeb Hensarling (R-Tex.) to find a way to steer the 12-member bipartisan panel to an agreement, the White House said.
Eight SEC employees disciplined over failures in Madoff fraud case; none are fired
The Securities and Exchange Commission, which failed to stop Bernard Madoff’s long-running investment fraud despite repeated warnings, has disciplined eight agency employees over their handling of the matter but did not fire anyone.
The SEC’s head of human resources and a law firm hired to advise the agency had recommended that SEC Chairman Mary L. Schapiro fire one person, whom the SEC described as a manager in the office that inspects investment firms.
