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Federal Reserve Board, Minutes of the Federal Open Market Committee, August 11-12, 2009 - 0 views

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    Agenda: Developments in Financial Markets and the Federal Reserve's Balance Sheet , Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility (TALF), Overall Economy and Consumer Spending, Federal Funds Rate and Unexpected Declines, LIBOR, Broad Stock Price Indices,
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Liberal Democrats Have Promised to "Die in the Ditch" to Make a Consumer Financial Prot... - 0 views

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    Where to put the new Consumer Financial Protection Agency (CFPA), which will centralize the writing and (to some degree) enforcement of federal financial regulations on such things as mortgages, savings accounts, and consumer debt. Should it be an independent agency, like the Securities and Exchange Commission, or a subunit of the Treasury Department or the Federal Reserve?
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Citizens United v. Federal Elections Commission (FEC) | Jan 21, 2010 | The Washington M... - 0 views

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    The Supreme Court has ruled that corporations may spend freely to support or oppose candidates for president and Congress, easing decades-old limits on their participation in federal campaigns.
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Supreme Court: Family can't sue federal doctors over immigrant's death - latimes.com - 0 views

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    Court says family can't sue federal doctors over detainee's death Immigration officials refused a man's repeated requests for a lesion biopsy. After his release, he died of cancer.
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Feds Let BP Avoid Filing Blowout Plan For Gulf Oil Rig - 0 views

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    "BP didn't file a plan to specifically handle a major oil spill from an uncontrolled blowout at its Deepwater Horizon project because the federal agency that regulates offshore rigs changed its rules two years ago to exempt certain projects in the central Gulf region"
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Cleansing the Temple | The American Prospect - 0 views

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    Can financial reforms straighten out one of America's most byzantine institutions, the Federal Reserve?
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Court Backs Oil Project (Exploratory Drilling in Alaska) NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    A federal appeals court on Thursday rejected an effort by environmental and Native American groups to stop exploratory oil drilling off the coast of Alaska that could begin this summer.
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A Dollar Rout Or More Bernanke Trickery? By Mike Whitney - 0 views

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    "The decision to skewer the dollar was made by the big banks and their allies at the Federal Reserve."
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FBI Building Biometrics System That "Blows Away" Fingerprinting - 0 views

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    The Federal Bureau of Investigation is expanding beyond its traditional fingerprint-focused collection practices to develop a new biometrics system that will include DNA records, 3-D facial imaging, palm prints and voice scans, blended to create what's known as "multi-modal biometrics." "The FBI today is announcing a rapid DNA initiative," said Louis Grever, executive assistant director of the FBI's science and technology branch, during his keynote presentation at the Biometric Consortium Conference in Tampa.
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Daily Kos: What Wasn't Passed During the Senate Finance Committee Markup on Healthcare ... - 0 views

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    Includes videos of debate between Senators Rockefeller and Bingham over how much of a premium dollar should be used to pay for healthcare; discussions of Inginex fraud; debate over unwarranted subsidies given to health insurers; lack of federal oversight of insurers; etc.
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Blackwater Ex-President Indicted | Mother Jones - 0 views

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    Gary Jackson, the ex-President of private security contractor Blackwater (now known as Xe), has been indicted on federal weapons charges, the Associated Press reports. Four other Blackwater officials will also face prosecution. As Mother Jones noted last month, this news wasn't entirely a surprise.
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Who Pays For The Oil Cleanup? | The New Republic - 0 views

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    Big, wealthy oil companies like BP are usually expected to pay to the cleanup costs themselves. But that still leaves the cost of all the indirect damage to fisheries and wildlife habitats in the area. In that case, under current law, an offshore rig operator is liable for up to $75 million in damages. After that, the federal government picks up the tab, using an oil spill liability trust fund that's paid for by a tiny tax on oil (amounting to one-tenth of 1 percent of the price).
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Senator Bernie Sanders Agrees to Limit Scope of Fed Audit in Modified Amendment | NYTim... - 0 views

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    "Senator Bernard Sanders, independent of Vermont, has agreed to modify a proposal that would require public audits of the Federal Reserve in a potential compromise"
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MMS Allowed Drilling Without Permits, Pressured Scientists to Suppress Safety / Environ... - 0 views

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    The federal Minerals Management Service gave permission to BP and dozens of other oil companies to drill in the Gulf of Mexico without first getting required permits from another agency that assesses threats to endangered species - and despite strong warnings from that agency about the impact the drilling was likely to have on the gulf.
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