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Survey Says... House Republicans Schedule Bevy of Critical Dodd-Frank Hearings
By Becca Heller and Nancy Watzman Jul 18, 2012 8:28 a.m.House Republicans are on an anti-Dodd-Frank blitz, but with a populist twist, leading up to the financial reform law’s second birthday later this week.
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Bain Capital tops list of Romney's career political supporters
By Bill Allison Jan 13, 2012 6:25 p.m.Bain Capital, the private equity firm that Mitt Romney has touted as the source of his business acumen and one of his opponents for the Republican nomination has labeled "vultures" is the largest source of political money for the former Massachusetts governor over the course of his career.
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Shelby smells a rat in S. 3217
By Ryan Sibley Apr 29, 2010 3:44 p.m.Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala, doesn't believe the financial reform bill the Senate began debating today will actually regulate the large financial organizations whose risky actions threatened the entire economy in 2008. Instead, the ranking member of the Senate Banking Committee sees the bill as something that will further institutionalize bank bailouts in the future.
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Committee members grilling Goldman have recieved Wall Street giant's money
By Ryan Sibley Apr 27, 2010 5:43 p.m.Four of the 10 committee members on the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations that grilled Goldman Sachs today have received campaign contributions from the Wall Street Giant. The amounts and recipients are as follows:
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Using TransparencyData.com to track Goldman's partners
By Bill Allison Apr 22, 2010 3:34 p.m.We all know, thanks to the Center for Responsive Politics, that Goldman Sachs is a heavy hitter--in the 2008 presidential cycle, among the top donors to both Barack Obama and John McCain, that its employees, their family members and its PAC favor Democrats in their giving by a two to one margin (and three to one in the 2008 election cycle), and Goldman Sachs has been among the top 100 donors to 286 election campaign committees for members of Congress.
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K Street Boom: At least 1,699 new clients in 2009
By Bill Allison Apr 1, 2009 6:21 p.m.Lobbying firms and special interests have filed nearly 1,700 new registration forms so far in the first quarter of 2009, according to a review of lobbying disclosure forms available online at the Senate Office of Public Records. As the federal government pumps up spending and intervenes in the troubled financial markets, K Street firms appear to have had no shortage of new business.
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