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  1. FARAdb Reveals Who Lobbyists Meet to Influence Congress

    By Anupama Narayanswamy Oct 2, 2008 7:11 p.m.

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  2. Prosecutorial Misconduct in the Stevens Trial?

    By Bill Allison Oct 2, 2008 4:37 p.m.

    The Washington Post reports that defense attorneys for Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, have accused prosecutors of withholding potentially exculpatory information. It appears that the judge hearing the case agrees:

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  3. Financial bailout: Senate approves bill

    By Bill Allison Oct 2, 2008 12:46 p.m.

    Details here, vote tallies here.

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  4. Financial Bailout: Nothing specific

    By Bill Allison Oct 2, 2008 12:46 a.m.

    When I read accounts like this, I'm not surprised that Congress has such low approval ratings:

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  5. Who's Paying for Election Ads? Follow the 527 Widget...

    By Anupama Narayanswamy Oct 1, 2008 7:16 p.m.

    The 30-second ad is typical fare for a campaign: the taxing and spending of a candidate, in this case former Gov. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., is pilloried. Her Republican opponent, Sen. John Sununu, facing a tough race, did not pay for the ad out of his own campaign funds. Instead, FEC filings show, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce ponied up the $750,000 to attack Shaheen.

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  6. Fannie Mae handbook: Illegal actions in a gray area?

    By Bill Allison Sep 30, 2008 7:16 p.m.

    This is largely gratuitous, but while tooling around Fannie Mae's Web site, I came across their Employee Code of Conduct, revised in 2007. The opening includes this passage:

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  7. Financial Bailout: K Street hurting too?

    By Bill Allison Sep 30, 2008 6:11 p.m.

    The Hill reports that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are dissolving their formidable lobbying operations (when the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight was investigating their shady accounting practices, Fannie Mae was spending $8 million a year on lobbyists, some of whom were working with Congress to derail the investigation).

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  8. Financial Bailout: Correlation in contributions and votes in House

    By Bill Allison Sep 30, 2008 3:10 p.m.

  9. Financial Bailout: Fannie Mae announces subpoena

    By Bill Allison Sep 29, 2008 11:11 p.m.

    Fannie Mae announced <a href="http://sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/310522/000129993308004533/0001299933-08-004533.txt">today</a> that it's gotten more subpoenas from the SEC and the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York:

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  10. Financial Bailout: Citigroup purchasing Wachovia

    By Bill Allison Sep 29, 2008 1:13 p.m.

    Just curious: Is Citigroup, in purchasing Wachovia and absorbing up to $42 billion in losses, making a good investment? Are they looking at Wachovia's red ink, or is there estimation of the bank's worth based on the notion that its balance sheet will soon be brought into the black co

  11. Financial Bailout: Comparison of plans

    By Bill Allison Sep 28, 2008 3:34 p.m.

    Mark Tapscott of the D.C. Examiner posts a comparison of what was in the original plan submitted by Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and what congressional negotiators have arrived at now.

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  12. Financial Bailout: A look at the House GOP negotiators

    By Bill Allison Sep 28, 2008 3:20 p.m.

    Continuing the theme of last night's post (and of several prior posts -- just scroll down), we're taking a look at some of the key players in the financial bailout negotiations, looking at their career contributions from and personal interest in the industry. Thanks to Open Secrets, the Web site of the Center for Responsive Politics, all this information is easily accessible online.

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  13. Financial Bailout: Deal hammered out?

    By Bill Allison Sep 28, 2008 5:49 a.m.

    That's what a series of members are saying on a press conference I happened to tune into a few moments ago -- there's an agreement, but details have to be worked out (including getting it all down on paper).

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  14. Financial Bailout: 102 pages and counting

    By Bill Allison Sep 27, 2008 2:36 a.m.

    This Associated Press report is a little like the early going of an Eric Ambler thriller: a tantalizing hint of the complexity to come, but very little detail about what the twists and turns will be. The market meltdown measure, which began its life as a 3-page bill, has grown:

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