Yesterday, the Senate passed by overwhelming margins two amendments to Sen. Chris Dodd’s (D-Conn.) financial regulatory reform bill: One sponsored by Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), to ensure no further taxpayer dollars go to Wall Street bailouts, and one agreed to by Dodd and Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) to drop the More…
With Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) attempting to round up votes for an Audit the Fed amendment to Sen. Chris Dodd’s (D-Conn.) financial regulatory reform proposal, Jon Hilsenrath of The Wall Street Journal takes note of the problems at the Fed’s congressional liaison office.
The Federal Reserve’s efforts to fend
Starting today, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) begins his push to ensure that a thorough audit of the Federal Reserve’s books, which Chairman Ben Bernanke expanded by more than $1 trillion to stave off the worst of the financial crisis, makes it into Sen. Chris Dodd’s (D-Conn.) financial regulatory reform More…
This week, senators will start formally considering amendments to Sen. Chris Dodd’s (D-Conn.) financial regulatory reform bill. Already, Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) has introduced an amendment, mostly symbolic, to “prohibit taxpayers from ever having to bail out the financial sector.”
And there are dozens of other amendments proposed and More…
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) had barely begun to give his acceptance speech at the 2008 Republican National Convention when a clamor went up in the upper levels of St. Paul’s XCel Center. Adam Kokesh, a marine who had become a leader of Iraq Veterans Against the More…
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