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Senators on super committee collecting less campaign cash this quarter
By Lindsay Young Nov 4, 2011 5:46 p.m.All but one Senate member on the super committee collected less campaign funds this quarter compared the previous quarter. Only Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, had a modest increase collecting a total of $85,532.
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MF Global pushed regulators to use client funds
By Nancy Watzman Nov 2, 2011 1:52 p.m.Late last year MF Global—the failed investment firm headed by Democratic heavyweight Jon S. Corzine that can't account for as much as $900 million of its clients' money--urged a federal agency to allow futures firms to invest funds from their customer segregated accounts in foreign sovereign debt.
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Nonprofit groups target super committee with billboard ads, don't disclose donors
By Stevie Mathieu Nov 1, 2011 2:13 p.m.With so many vying for the attention of the 12 lawmakers charged with cutting up to $1.5 trillion from the nation's deficit, some groups have turned to plastering their messages to the "super committee" on billboards.
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Sunlight Live Team to Cover "Super Committee" Discussion of Simpson-Bowles and Previous Debt Proposals
By Katy Schultz Oct 31, 2011 midnightThe so-called super committee will meet in public tomorrow for only the fourth time, when it looks at recent efforts to reduce the debt in a session titled “Overview of Previous Debt Proposals."
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Federal Reserve delays release of transcripts of major meetings
By Nancy Watzman Oct 28, 2011 10:58 a.m.If you want to know who says what at next week's meeting of the Federal Reserve’s Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), which oversees market operations for the central bank, you will have to wait until the year 2016 to find out.
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Wednesday: Sunlight Live to check in on super committee
By Tessa Muggeridge Oct 24, 2011 12:47 p.m.When the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, or super committee, emerges from the shadows on Wednesday morning to hold its first public hearing in a month, the Sunlight Live team will be there to shine a light on who’s influencing the panel.
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Bank executives plead case to administration officials over Volcker rule
By Anupama Narayanswamy Oct 24, 2011 12:32 p.m.Top executives with major banks met regularly with federal agency officials who were writing a draft rule meant to curtail risky Wall Street trading — known popularly as the Volcker rule, named for the former chairman of the Federal Reserve, Paul Volcker — federal agency meeting records show.
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Super committee related issues feature in hundreds of lobbying reports
By Anupama Narayanswamy Oct 24, 2011 11:23 a.m.K Street firms got little respite this past quarter, between lobbying on the debt ceiling early in the summer and then quickly shifting their focus to the "super committee," recently released lobbying reports show.
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Van Hollen's alternate fundraising vehicle wakes up
By Keenan Steiner Oct 21, 2011 11:12 a.m.After being dormant for all of 2011, Congressman Chris Van Hollen's joint fundraising committee woke up in the third quarter, with most of the over $180,000 in funds coming after he was tapped for Congress’s powerful deficit-cutting committee in early August.
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Gaddafi's long history of lobbying comes to an end
By Lindsay Young Oct 20, 2011 1:31 p.m.Libyan Dictator Moammar Gaddafi was killed today in his hometown of Sirte, a showman to the end, “brandishing a golden pistol.” Lobbying, in many ways, was part of his political arsenal that boosted Gaddafi’s international prowess, helped protect him from additional sanctions and promoted the business interests of the Libyan ruling elite and U.S. business. We’ve covered several of these instances in the past. Here’s a look at a few:
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GAO says Federal Reserve should improve transparency
By Nancy Watzman Oct 19, 2011 11:57 a.m.In the wake of the financial crisis, when members of Congress and others raised questions about conflicts of interest within the Federal Reserve banking system and individual banks, the Federal Reserve should take concrete steps to become more transparent, reports the General Accountability Office (GAO) in a report issued today.
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With Fed foreign currency swaps on the rise, mystery remains which foreign banks benefit
By Nancy Watzman Oct 19, 2011 10:52 a.m.Since the end of August, the European Central Bank has been drawing on the foreign currency swap line established by the U.S. Federal Reserve Board, recently securing $1.8 billion to lend to European banks, most of it over a three-month time period. But the ECB does not name which banks or institutions are receiving these dollars. Who gets the money is anybody's guess.
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Federal Reserve forced to report which banks benefit from loan programs
By Nancy Watzman Oct 18, 2011 12:35 p.m.It took an act of Congress and a major lawsuit, but the details of the U.S. Federal Reserve Board's emergency loan programs and discount window lending--which peaked at more than a trillion dollars for the nation's biggest banks and other institutions during the recent financial meltdown--finally came into the light.
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Super committee member Van Hollen doubles campaign cash intake over last quarter
By Anupama Narayanswamy Oct 18, 2011 11:19 a.m.The campaign of super committee member Rep. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., took in more than twice as much money in the third quarter of 2011 as it did in the second, newly released Federal Election Commission records show. Overall, two of the six House members of the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction--popularly known as the "super committee"--reported increased fundraising totals in the third quarter.
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