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  1. Mel Watt's ties to the banking industry

    By Keenan Steiner May 2, 2013 11:25 a.m.

    (CORRECTION: This post has been updated to eliminate the name of the American Bankers' Association's Michael Hunter, incorrectly identified in earlier versions as an alumnus of Watt's office. Hunter worked for former Rep. J.C. Watts, R-Okla.) 

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  2. Bernanke is positive about economy, despite poor markets

    By Ryan Sibley Mar 1, 2011 6:17 p.m.

    The Federal Reserve Chairman, Ben Bernanke, said he believes the economy will continue to grow this year despite high unemployment rates, weak job growth and an “exceptionally weak housing sector”.

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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. CRP tracks beneficiaries of belly-up banks

    By Bill Allison Sep 15, 2008 2:41 p.m.

    Our friends at the Center for Responsive Politics have been doing yeoman's work compiling lists of the politicians who've received the most money over the years from political action committees and employees and their family members of the big financial colossi that are seeking (or having imposed on them) federal help to stave off collapse. Their Lehman Brothers list is here while Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are ">here.

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