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AIG bundled for Dodd
By Bill Allison Mar 30, 2009 3:13 p.m.Jennifer Haberkorn reports in the Washington Times:
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AIG subsidiary sues Countrywide Financial
By Bill Allison Mar 25, 2009 4:05 p.m.How did I miss this?
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Give a dollar to a pol, get $18,195 back
By Bill Allison Mar 25, 2009 3:13 a.m.Glenn Reynolds asks whether employees in the financial industry, always a big donor to political campaigns, will contribute to other candidates or curtail their giving. He cites the AIG bonus flap, and Congress' reaction to it (including the outrage of members and the House passing a bill that would tax 90 percent of those bonuses away) as evidence of the fickleness of Congressional favor. Reynolds writes,
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Rangel: No accusations coming from Congress
By Bill Allison Mar 24, 2009 7:36 p.m.Roll Call's Lauren W. Whittington reports that Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., once again, is saying that the ethics committee has nothing on him:
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Dodd's family business?
By Bill Allison Mar 24, 2009 2:58 p.m.Kevin Rennie notes another connection of Sen. Christopher Dodd to the financial industry, at one remove from AIG:
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Dodd controversies continue to swirl
By Bill Allison Mar 23, 2009 12:35 p.m.Sen. Christopher Dodd is getting criticism from out-of-state ">papers (but note the all the Connecticut residents quoted) over the AIG bonus bungle, but the Hartford Courant ran what might be the most significant story (hat tip: Instapundit, who has a lot more on Dodd):
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Dodd did it update
By Bill Allison Mar 20, 2009 8:53 p.m.Apparently, Geithner did it too. (Previous Dodd did it post here.) As this episode illustrates, there ought to be a better way of tracking whose fingerprints--those of members of Congress, administration officials, lobbyists--are on which parts of what bills.
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Financial crisis doesn't disrupt financial fundraisers
By Bill Allison Mar 20, 2009 3:10 p.m."As the public boils with anger over millions of dollars in retention bonuses for American Insurance Group employees, financial interests quietly continue to woo lawmakers with fundraising parties this month.
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Dodd did it
By Bill Allison Mar 19, 2009 3:11 a.m.Sen. Christopher Dodd tells CNN that he was responsible for the bailouts for bonuses provision in the stimulus bill that allowed AIG executives to bring home $165 million...after telling CNN the day before that, "When I wrote the language there was no such language like that."
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Senate channels "Not Me"
By Bill Allison Mar 18, 2009 5:05 p.m.Maybe we should make members pass a quiz on the contents of bills before they're allowed to vote. Case in point: the bonus exemption in the Stimulus Bill that AIG executives took advantage of. Where it came from and how it got into the bill is a mystery:
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Sleuthing the Stimulus' bonus provision
By Bill Allison Mar 18, 2009 3:20 a.m.So maybe Dodd's not to blame for the AIG bonus furor. Jane Hamsher uses OpenCongress.org to compare versions of the bill -- Donnie Shaw explains how here. Hamsher concludes:
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Don't mean...
By Bill Allison Mar 17, 2009 8:13 p.m.to keep picking on Dodd, but he does seem to be in the center of quite a lot of things lately:
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