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Progressive Breakfast: What's Next For Wall Street Reform?
Each morning, Bill Scher and Terrance Heath serve up what progressives need to affect change on the kitchen-table issues families face: jobs, health care, green energy, financial reform, affordable education and retirement security. After Senate Passage, Lobbyists Eye...
Progressive Breakfast - 5/21/2010
Each morning, Bill Scher and Terrance Heath serve up what progressives need to affect change on the kitchen-table issues families face: jobs, health care, green energy, financial reform, affordable education and retirement security. After Senate Passage, Lobbyists Eye...
Some Games Are Zero-Sum, Mr. President
Turning conflicts of interest into "win/win" situations can be a form of brilliance. Pretending those conflicts don't exist can be a form of indifference. That's why it was troubling to hear the President say today that financial reform "is not a zero sum game where...
Sen. Cantwell's Courageous Vote
The most courageous vote yesterday in the Senate was cast by Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., who refused to let the Senate sign-off on an unnecessarily weak Wall Street reform bill. Cantwell has been trying to fix a fatal loophole in the derivatives language which...
Stop China's Cheating
Monday the U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue (S&ED) begins in Beijing. (See the Treasury Dept fact sheet on the S&ED.) Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner will attend, and meet with their counterparts. As I have been writing...
Progressive Breakfast - 5/20/2010
Each morning, Bill Scher and Terrance Heath serve up what progressives need to affect change on the kitchen-table issues families face: jobs, health care, green energy, financial reform, affordable education and retirement security. Senate Tries To Break Wall Street...
A Financial War With Two Fronts ... And One Wrong General
Things have been moving pretty quickly lately in the interlocking worlds of politics and financial reform. While there is a lot we don't know, here are three statements we can probably make with a high degree of certainty: 1. If the banks had been on the ballot...
Liveblogging The War On Wall Street Reform
UPDATE 1:00 P.M Dodd just tried to move on amendments by Sens. Snowe, R-Maine, Landrieau, D-La., Vitter, R-La., and Whitehouse, D-R.I., and then proceed to the cloture vote. Sen. Carl Levin objected, presumably because his amendment to implement the Volcker Rule was...
Chris Dodd, Phil Gramm, And The Legacy Of A Statesman
Few realized it at the time, but Senator Chris Dodd's political career ended on June 12, 2008. That day, Portfolio magazine published its blistering expose on Countrywide Financial's "Friends of Angelo" program, naming the Democrat from Connecticut as one of the top...
Change, Not Recovery
What was the message of Tuesday's elections? Clearly the base voters of both parties are unhappy and looking for change. Incumbents are at risk. Politics as usual is unappealing. Conservatives in both parties are spinning this as a protest vote about deficits and...
