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Posts Tagged Congressional Republicans

Will Military Commissions Under Obama Differ From the Bush Era?

By | 04.26.10 | 6:00 am

Starting this week, something will happen that was never supposed to when Barack Obama took the oath of office. A military commission meeting at Guantanamo Bay nearly five months after Obama said the detention facility would cease to exist will hold a pre-trial hearing for Omar Khadr, a Canadian citizen More…

Republicans to Propose Financial Regulatory Reform – With Absolutely No Teeth

By | 06.09.09 | 9:42 am

What’s up with the Obama administration’s much-vaunted plans for financial regulatory reform? First, The Washington Post reports that an ambitious proposal for a systemic risk regulator — a single agency to regulate and monitor banking and  intervene if threats to the financial system emerge — is getting bogged More…