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FinReg Has the Votes to Pass … Maybe

By | 07.13.10 | 9:36 am

Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) signed on overnight, meaning that the sweeping Dodd-Frank financial regulatory reform bill, the Obama administration’s second signature piece of legislation, has the votes to pass. A final vote is expected for Thursday, and Obama is likely to sign the bill into law that day.

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Palin’s Improv Comedy

By | 10.29.08 | 5:36 pm

TWI correspondent Ana Marie Cox, reporting from the McCain campaign trail, provides a transcript of Gov. Sarah Palin’s energy policy speech and highlights the many times Palin strays from the prepared, teleprompted remarks. For more on Palin’s deviation from the McCain campaign’s plans, in speeches and elsewhere, see Ana More…

Ana Marie Cox on Palin’s Rogue Turn

By | 10.29.08 | 1:43 pm

Ana Marie Cox, our newest correspondent, reports from the campaign trail with Sen. John McCain. Here she covers Gov. Sarah Palin’s speech today in Toledo, Ohio.

Palin: Maverick or Rogue?

By | 10.29.08 | 1:38 pm

TOLEDO, Ohio — The McCain camp has pushed back hard on the notion that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is operating independently from the senator’s campaign — or, in the colorful parlance of a typically unnamed staffer, “gone rogue.”

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