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21st November, 2008

Posts Tagged ‘Senate’

Bush’s Regulation Blizzard Clock Stopped

By Denis Campbell • Nov 12th, 2008 • Category: Features
 

by Denis Campbell
Just when George Bush thought he could sneak it through, there is growing support in Congress for an obscure piece of legislation that could reverse the Bush Administration’s midnight regulation rush — even ones already in effect. W’s team wants to finalize energy and environmental regulations by November so Barack Obama can’t undo [...]


Senate Dems Race to 60 Seats

By Denis Campbell • Oct 15th, 2008 • Category: Politics Too
 
by Denis Campbell
While the Presidential contest gets the most press, the race for control of both houses of the US Congress and state governorships is equally critical to whoever becomes the new President. 60 in the Senate is such an important number because that is the number of votes required to halt/prevent crippling filibusters which [...]


Senate Plop-plop, Fizz-fizz

By Denis Campbell • Oct 2nd, 2008 • Category: Features
 

by Denis Campbell
$700,000,000,000… oh what a relief, it is! With apologies to Alka-Seltzer, one chamber crawled out of the sandbox and reached an unpopular but bi-partisan decision to save global credit markets last night as banks held a Russian Roulette pistol with six chambers full to our heads and yelled, “stop me before I shoot.” 
Crisis [...]


The Bailout: The Really Fine Print Is Really, Really Scary

By Charley James • Sep 25th, 2008 • Category: Business
 
by Charley James
Assuming that the Bush-Paulson Wall St. bailout gets changed drastically by the time it’s passed, we can all tip our hat to Mother Jones. With everyone on the Hill screaming about the power grab Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson is trying to engineer, the magazine’s Nomi Prins deserves a deep thanks for noticing the [...]


“The Fierce Urgency of Now,” 45 Years Later

By Denis Campbell • Jun 5th, 2008 • Category: Features
The last 36-hours have been overwhelming in historical significance. A young black man, born of mixed-race parents, raised by a single white mother in Indonesia and later white grandparents in Hawaii, obtained a top Ivy League education, worked as a lawyer in Chicago helping to organise union members, ran unsuccessfully for Congress, then became a [...]