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Doing the honorable thing

…Victims rights. And on Friday the Senate Judiciary Committee voted 3-2 (2 Democrats and 1 Republican in favor); and the House Judiciary Committee issued a 7 – (5 Republicans, 2…

Evening News Report: Angry Bears Testify on Capitol Hill

…damned environmentalists who made it go up.” Representative Therapist1, Armed Services Committee Chairman: “However by lessening our need for consuming so much foreign oil, then we can hopefully decrease the…

Department of Education becomes major lender to students

…this burden. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.), who chairs the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, recently sent a letter to the presidents of all the nation’s universities, urging them…

Bonus pay rewards WAMU execs for 2007 performance

Washington Mutual files amended executive 2008 bonus package with the SEC. For the 2008 Bonus Plan the Committee selected the following performance measures and relative weights: · The Company’s 2008…

OCC watch

…the normally complacent House Financial Services Committee has weighed in. In addition to holding OCC oversight hearings, it has passed a bi-partisan budget resolution on a vote of 34-28 stating…

FTA and WTO progress

…of trade agreements from the formal trade advisory committee system. This congressionally created trade advisory committee system, which includes both policy-level and technical committees, also provides ongoing advice throughout negotiations.TPA…

Another way not to pay for Social Security

…cards to a married name if they had only a foreign marriage certificate as proof, says Paul McGinley, a former operations supervisor in Knoxville, Tenn., who retired this year. “Fathers…

Transparent market expenses

New England Journal of Medicine reports the following about transparency in the market: On September 6, 2007, Senators Charles Grassley (R-IA), the ranking member of the Committee on Finance, and…

Media Matters points to another ‘objective opinion’ in the press. Who is able to follow the money? Since 2004, Clifford D. May, former Republican National Committee communications director and president…