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Senator Levin: "Your Clients Lost. Goldman Profits" | Kris Broughton | Big Think - 0 views

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    I was tooling around the internet for awhile yesterday, looking for a transcript of the Congressional hearings that featured Goldman Sachs executives and traders as the star witnesses, before I realized that nowhere in print was there any real sense of what had gone on. Congressional hearings may have been effective at some point in the past, but these days, the witnesses are usually far too polished and used to dissembling for hours at a time to be of any real value, and the senators and congressmen who are asking the questions are usually too polite to do more than ask questions of little or no value. Senator Carl Levin tried to deviate from that formula on Tuesday. He was harsh, unyielding and relentless. "Your clients lost. Goldman profits" rang out several times during his opening address. But Senator Levin didn't have enough of an understanding of the business to really pin back the ears of any of the witnesses, including Lloyd Blankfein, Goldman Sachs chairman. I couldn't figure out for the life of me why his staffers didn't line up a few disgruntled traders and insiders to give the senator a three or four day crash course on the business. His gambling analogies were something that might appeal to my grandmother, who puts gambling of any kind up there with the cardinal sins, but missed the mark when it came to characterizing Wall Street's shenanigans.
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Dodd, Leahy, Feingold, and Merkley Announce Bill to Repeal Retroactive Immunity for Tel... - 0 views

  • Dodd, Leahy, Feingold, and Merkley Announce Bill to Repeal Retroactive Immunity | Press Release | Sept. 28, 2009
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    Senator Leahy, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee said, "Last year, I opposed legislation that stripped Americans of their right to seek accountability for the Bush administration's decision to illegally wiretap American citizens without a warrant. Today, I am pleased to join Senator Dodd to introduce the Retroactive Immunity Repeal Act. We can strengthen national security while protecting Americans' privacy and civil liberties. Restoring Americans' access to the courts is the first step toward bringing some measure of accountability for the Bush-Cheney administration's decision to conduct warrantless surveillance in violation of our laws."
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Oligarchic Senate Still 'Treasonous' After All These Years - 0 views

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    "Treason is a strong word, but not too strong, rather too weak, to characterize the situation in which the Senate is the eager, resourceful, indefatigable agent of interests as hostile to the American people as any invading army could be."
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Contact Congress: List of Email, Phone & Fax Numbers for all Representatives & Senators... - 0 views

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    Contact Congress: List of Email, Phone & Fax Numbers for all Representatives & Senators - 2009
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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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Lawmakers Cave to FBI in Patriot Act Debate | Threat Level | Wired.com - 0 views

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    "Powerful Senate leaders on Thursday bowed to FBI concerns that adding privacy protections to an expiring provision of the Patriot Act could jeopardize "ongoing" terror investigations."
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‪McCain to Republicans: Pushing Balanced Budget Amendment is "Bizarro"‬‏ - Yo... - 0 views

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    Senator John McCain warned his Senate colleagues on Wednesday, "To hold out and say we won't agree to raising the debt limit to pass a Balanced Budget Amendment to the Constitution, it's unfair, it's bizarro."
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WALL STREET and the FINANCIAL CRISIS: Anatomy of a Financial Collapse | Permanent Subco... - 0 views

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    Wall Street + The Financial Crisis | What has Washington done to remedy the issues identified here?
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Crooked Contractors: Shouldn't They Be Defunded Like ACORN? (Video) U.S. Senator Bernie... - 0 views

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    Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Blackwater...their fraud has been rewarded with continuing contracts in the billions, despite fraudulent billing, armed forces endangerment, defective parts in military equipment, overcharges, double-billing, murder, etc.
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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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Judging Elena Kagan Because she's never been a judge, senators must seek to elicit her ... - 0 views

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    "Judging Elena Kagan Because she's never been a judge, senators must seek to elicit her views on the Constitution and the role of a judge."
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Google Moderator | Brainstorm, Discuss, Vote, Collaborate, Create, Organize in Online D... - 0 views

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    What should our priorities be for the Subcommittee on Contracting Oversight? What hearings would you like to see? What contract or program needs additional oversight? What laws, regulations, and policies need to be changed? I'll need all the suggestions and support I can get -- I'll draw heavily on your input as we move forward toward a system that better serves the government and the taxpayer. -Senator Claire McCaskill
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DiscoverTheNetworks.org | Right-Wing 'Guide' to the Political Left - 0 views

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    Stark raving mad, this website trembles in fear at evil communists like Senator Bernie Sanders, I-VT, who wants to balance excesses of asset-owning, elite investors with needs of wage-earning peasants!
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Multi-front fights & the influence machine: Obama & lobbyists who know no limit | "We a... - 0 views

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    As of mid-August 2009, there were six (6) lobbyists per single (1) member of House and Senate (Bloomberg News). That's 6:1, folks. Just for healthcare reform. For financial industry reform, there are 2,400 lobbyists in play. The Chamber of Commerce spent $26.2 million--in the first 2 quarters (6 months) of 2009. Clearly, private industries and their foot soldiers on K Street/Capitol Hill influence/dictate American policymaking. No matter who's 'voted in,' it's the influence machine that rules Washington. Worse, there's a good chance that the Supreme Court will grant corporations (as 'fictive persons') to spend unlimited dollars in funding electoral campaigns. Is there hope that this country will be a democracy one day? Or is it doomed to become increasingly, irrevocably plutocratic?
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Health industry gets what it pays for in contributions to Blue Dogs - 0 views

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    Healthcare Industry Gets Great Value from its Contributions to Blue Dogs (Centrist Democratic Senators)
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