WH Wants to See Concessions Before a Bailout
White House Says Bailout Deal Is Not Imminent By Jonathan Karl, Z. Byron Wolf and Kate Barrett / ABC The White House said a decision on whether to provide an emergency loan to Detroit automakers is not imminent and suggested it's not definite either. "We're not going to be rushed ...
McConnell deals major blow to bailout
By David Rogers / Politico Senate Republican opposition to the White House's proposed $14 billion bailout for ailing automakers set off a scramble Thursday to try to find some compromise as United Auto Workers representatives came to the Capitol to discuss proposed labor concessions to keep General Motors Corp. afloat. ...
Foreclosure Machine Grinds On Through Holiday Season
Fannie and Freddie Moratorium Hasn't Stopped Evictions By Mary Kane / Washington Independent This is supposed to be the season for a break in home foreclosures, a pause in evictions over the holidays. But it's not working out that way for everyone. And certainly not for Julio Angulo of suburban ...
Obama: Financial bailout must help homeowners, too
By Jim Kuhnhenn / Associated Press WASHINGTON — President-elect Barack Obama signaled a clear desire Wednesday to use a significant portion of $700 billion in financial bailout funds to stanch foreclosures by helping struggling homeowners with their mortgages. "The deteriorating assets in the financial markets are rooted in the deterioration ...
Paulson Debates Second Infusion
Hostile Lawmakers, Competing Bailout Demands and GAO Criticism Pose Dilemma By Deborah Solomon and Michael R. Crittenden / Wall Street Journal WASHINGTON -- U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson is debating whether to ask Congress for the second installment of the $700 billion bailout package, concerned about competing demands for the ...
GOP senators hail Obama's economic team
By Alexander Bolton / The Hill Senior Senate Republicans who battled former President Clinton on budget and tax issues are applauding the return of his economic team to President-elect Barack Obama's White House. Sen. Judd Gregg (R-N.H.), a leading congressional Republican on economic issues, lauded Obama's appointment of Timothy Geithner ...
By Naomi Klein / Rolling Stone Editor's note: The online version of this story has been amended to reflect developments since the publication of the print edition. On October 13th, when the U.S. Treasury Department announced the team of "seasoned financial veterans" that will be handling the $700 billion bailout ...
Congress OKs historic bailout bill; Bush signs it
By Julie Hirschfeld Davis and David Espo / Associated Press WASHINGTON - With the economy on the brink and elections looming, Congress approved an unprecedented $700 billion government bailout of the battered financial industry on Friday and sent it to President Bush who quickly signed it. "We have acted boldly ...
The debate is on; McCain agrees to participate
By Nedra Pickler / Associated Press WASHINGTON - Republican John McCain agreed to attend the first presidential debate Friday night even though Congress doesn't have a bailout deal, reversing an earlier decision to delay the event until Washington had taken action to address the crisis. With less than 10 hours ...
Some at Dartmouth protest speech by Bush administration official
Associated Press HANOVER, N.H. - Some faculty members at Dartmouth College are questioning why the college invited a top Bush administration official to give the keynote speech at Sunday’s commencement. U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Dartmouth in 1968. He was president and CEO of investment ...
June 6th, 2007 Former Louisiana Congressman Billy Tauzin, PhRMA President and CEO 'Girding for Battle' Pharmaceutical industry received reports on 'SiCKO' from Cannes Girding for Battle: California Nurses Association | Guaranteed Healthcare | Health Care for All | HealthCare-NOW! | OneCareNow | Physicians for a National Health Program | Sacramento ...
Michael Moore Asks Treasury for the 411 on Himself
Los Angeles (E! Online) - Michael Moore wants to know what the U.S. Treasury Department is saying about him and he isn't one to just take the government's word for it. The controversy-courting filmmaker filed a Freedom of Information Act request Wednesday asking for all of the documents pertaining to ...
Paulson Says Wolfowitz's Successor Should Still Be an American
By Matthew Benjamin / Bloomberg May 17 -- Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said he will consult with international colleagues about a successor to outgoing World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz, while stressing that the position should remain in U.S. hands. ``I intend to move quickly to help the president identify a ...
Wolfowitz resigns; Bush to nominate successor soon
By Lesley Wroughton / Reuters WASHINGTON - Paul Wolfowitz resigned as president of the World Bank on Thursday, ending a protracted battle over his stewardship prompted by his involvement in a high-paying promotion for his companion. "The poorest people in the world ... deserve the very best we can deliver," ...
"Sicko" is Completed and We're Off to Cannes!
Friends, It's a wrap! My new film, "Sicko," is all done and will have its world premiere this Saturday night at the Cannes Film Festival. As with "Bowling for Columbine" and "Fahrenheit 9/11," we are honored to have been chosen by this prestigious festival to screen our work there. My ...
Moore: Bush 'coming after me' for political reasons
By Kim Profant / Chicago Tribune LOS ANGELES -- Filmmaker Michael Moore has asked the Bush administration to call off an investigation of his trip to Cuba to get treatment for ailing Sept. 11 rescue workers for a segment in his upcoming health-care expose, "SiCKO." Moore, who made the hit ...
Moore blasts Bush over film-trip probe
By David Germain / Associated Press LOS ANGELES - Filmmaker Michael Moore has asked the Bush administration to call off an investigation of his trip to Cuba to get treatment for ailing Sept. 11 rescue workers for a segment in his upcoming health-care expose, "Sicko." Moore, who made the hit ...
Open Letter from Michael Moore to U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson
Secretary Henry Paulson Department of the Treasury 1500 Pennsylvania Ave. Washington, DC 20220 May 11, 2007 Secretary Paulson, I am contacting you in light of the document sent to me dated May 2, 2007, which was received May 7, 2007 indicating that an investigation has been opened up with regards ...
Open Letter from Michael Moore to U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson
Secretary Henry Paulson Department of the Treasury 1500 Pennsylvania Ave. Washington, DC 20220 May 11, 2007 Secretary Paulson, I am contacting you in light of the document sent to me dated May 2, 2007, which was received May 7, 2007 indicating that an investigation has been opened up with regards ...
Factory jobs: 3 million lost since 2000
By Martin Crutsinger / Associated Press Three weeks ago, Dawn Zimmer became a statistic. Laid off from her job assembling trucks at Freightliner's plant in Portland, Ore., she and 800 of her colleagues joined a long line of U.S. manufacturing workers who have lost jobs in recent years. A total ...
Rockefeller: Iraq drains security funds
By Katherine Shrader / Associated Press WASHINGTON - The new chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee said he fears the government will not have enough money for homeland security and other domestic priorities because of President Bush's " Iraq adventure." In an interview on Monday, Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., criticized ...
Stakes are high for business community in Nov. elections
By Sue Kirchhoff / USA Today WASHINGTON — If Democrats pick up the 15 seats they need to gain a House majority on Nov. 7, liberal Charles Rangel of New York, an outspoken critic of President Bush's sweeping tax cuts, will chair the powerful Ways and Means Committee, overseeing taxes, ...
Oil imports push trade deficit higher
By Martin Crutsinger / Associated Press WASHINGTON - America's trade deficit unexpectedly jumped to a new record in August, providing ammunition for Democrats to attack Republican trade policies in the closing weeks of the fall elections. The gap between what the U.S. exports and what it imports rose by 2.7 ...
Snow likely to step down in mid-June: sources
By Caren Bohan and Glenn Somerville / Reuters WASHINGTON - Treasury Secretary John Snow, whose future in the Bush administration has been the subject of heated speculation in recent months, is likely to step down in mid- to late June, Republican sources said. The White House is narrowing its choices ...
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Thanks to everyone for bearing with me as I spend so much time on what happened to Emad Burnat. It's important to me because he's ...
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February 20th, 2013
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If the 'Mosque' Isn't Built, This Is No Longer America
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Why I'm Posting Bail Money for Julian Assange
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May 12th, 2011
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A STATEMENT FROM MICHAEL MOORE ON THE EXECUTION OF TROY DAVIS
I encourage everyone I know to never travel to Georgia, never buy anything made in Georgia, to never do business in Georgia. I will ask ...
December 16th, 2010
Dear Swedish Government: Hi there -- or as you all say, Hallå! You know, all of us here in the U.S. love your country. Your ...
November 2nd, 2010
This letter contains (almost) no criticisms of how the Democrats have brought this day of reckoning upon themselves. That -- and where to go from ...
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