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  1. Cram down look ups, cont. cont....

    By Bill Allison May 13, 2009 3:32 p.m.

    For more detail on what this is, see here. While this is still partially that, it's also turning into something else. As I noted, this is raw research, not a finished product--results to come. One thing I'm finding is that looking closely at slices of data from Party Time leads in all kinds of directions...

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  2. Cram down look ups, cont.

    By Bill Allison May 7, 2009 8:07 p.m.

    More research (see here for details on what this research is. I'm trying to see if there was a flurry of fundraising around the vote on the Durbin amendment to the Helping Families Save Their Homes Act of 2009.

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  3. Looking up cram down opponents in Party Time

    By Bill Allison May 6, 2009 10:05 p.m.

    This post is all research and no results -- that'll come later. I wanted to take a look at a vote my colleague Paul Blumenthal referred to with the title (quoting Sen. Richard Durbin) "They own the place." The "they" in question are financial sector firms, the place is Congress; at issue is a bill, the Helping Families Save Their Homes Act of 2009 -- or rather, an amendment to that bill -- that was voted down by a 51-45 margin.

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