Citigroup Taxpayer Ownership Doesn't Prevent Lobbying

Bloomberg.com:

Citigroup Inc., which has yet to repay $45 billion in federal assistance, has more lobbyists than any other company who registered to try to shape legislation regulating the financial industry, U.S. Senate records show.

The New York-based bank, 34 percent-owned by the U.S. government, is listed as a client by 46 of the 1,537 lobbyists who filed with Congress to work on President Barack Obama's push for rules to limit financial risks and impose stricter consumer protections.

Read the whole story: Bloomberg.com

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[poco767c]

01:39 PM on 10/23/2009

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[FloydRTurbo]

01:23 PM on 10/23/2009

Is it just me or does AH seem to be awfully full of herself lately?

[kdublya]

01:25 PM on 10/23/2009

No*

[FloydRTurbo]

01:27 PM on 10/23/2009

If it wasn't for us she would still be on the community access channels pushing her girly books.

[kdublya]

01:22 PM on 10/23/2009

AIGianna is the biggest game changer the world will ever know.

Can we move on now?

[FloydRTurbo]

01:25 PM on 10/23/2009

I'll agree to that if it gets us an interesting main.

[kdublya]

01:25 PM on 10/23/2009

Presto! Your wish has been granted.

NEW MAIN

[drbillybob]

01:16 PM on 10/23/2009

On the main I humbly suggested that the biggest "game changer' from the sporting world could be allowing an XXY person to compete as a female.

This is a valid taliking point. The IOC and IAAF have yet to decide. But it cannot be dicussed - even on 'open forums' like this.

[FloydRTurbo]

01:20 PM on 10/23/2009

It's simple. If you pee standing up you're a guy.

[drbillybob]

01:23 PM on 10/23/2009

I wanna know if she takes a paper into the cr@pper ... that would settle it for me.

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[FloydRTurbo]

01:14 PM on 10/23/2009

It's either the countdown to Armageddon or the result of a bad burrito I ate last night.

[FloydRTurbo]

01:11 PM on 10/23/2009

ClotaireGavriel "Do I sound like a Demorat?"

Yikes! Now it thinks we can hear it!

[HumeSkeptic]

01:04 PM on 10/23/2009

The main now has record-breaking 7 comments, 0 pending.
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[lornejl]

01:08 PM on 10/23/2009

That sounds like a right wing business model.

[FloydRTurbo]

01:08 PM on 10/23/2009

HP is a Friday wet blanket.

[FloydRTurbo]

01:01 PM on 10/23/2009

Nude square dancing in the winter. Now that's some kind of fun.

[peacekitten]

01:02 PM on 10/23/2009

shudder.

[kdublya]

12:56 PM on 10/23/2009

In other news, Frank Gaffney asked to see Ron Reagan Jr's birth certificate.

[peacekitten]

12:59 PM on 10/23/2009

that was a GREAT interview.

ron was terrific.

[kdublya]

01:04 PM on 10/23/2009

Fanned!

Seriously though, this is beginning to feel like purgatory.

[HumeSkeptic]

12:55 PM on 10/23/2009

"Barry's poll numbers are dropping"

Yeah, they dropped a lot after McCain picked Sarah for VP.
I kind of like how all that worked out in the end.

Republican, the f00ls they are, always find something in the news that gives them the illusion that they are relevant or even winning.

[FloydRTurbo]

12:57 PM on 10/23/2009

From where their heads are everything looks chitty.

[poco767c]

12:59 PM on 10/23/2009

Obama can't win big states. ................... Urmmmm Never mind.

[RichPort]

01:26 PM on 10/23/2009

At least not VA, NC or IN...

What's that..? Really? Oh...

[drbillybob]

12:52 PM on 10/23/2009

I hear there's a great new spongecake recipe on the food channel site ... without n@zi oversight.

[JackRusselTerrier]

12:50 PM on 10/23/2009

What's the standard republican plan? Tax cuts for the rich of course.
No wonder they are eventually exposed for the sexual_ deviants_ they are.
They like golden showers_ (trickle down), little boys, and cheat on their wives.
What a sad_ excuse_ for a political party.

[drbillybob]

12:56 PM on 10/23/2009

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ma0goZOSVl8

[drbillybob]

12:49 PM on 10/23/2009

The Goddess is censoring the main thread ... what up here?

[kdublya]

12:52 PM on 10/23/2009

Deepdish pizza, hot or hotter?

[FeloniusMonk]

01:15 PM on 10/23/2009

And this is news? Don't like her chosing to control her private business enterprise? Don't go to the main. I'm not. She can do what she choses, it is her site, but neither you nor I have to endorse it.

[drbillybob]

01:30 PM on 10/23/2009

She is controlling any critical analysis of her private enterprise ... she has that right.

But let's not pretend that this is an open exchange of ideas when the queen bee lays another egg and retreats into the hive ...

[FloydRTurbo]

12:46 PM on 10/23/2009

Cutest animal Halloween costumes?

http://bumout.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/funny-pets-halloween-costumes-dogs2.jpg

[FloydRTurbo]

12:49 PM on 10/23/2009

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6dngziSFeMU/RjNQZL2LW_I/AAAAAAAAACQ/y57WTlAuxYU/s400/dog-costume.jpg

[kdublya]

12:50 PM on 10/23/2009

ROFLMAO

[yoozum]

12:46 PM on 10/23/2009

What we have now isn't even considered a "free market" economic system. When several firms' potential collapse threatens the entire worldwide economy (AIG, F and F, Citi, BofA) and holds it hostage, then you can hardly consider that capitalism.

[ErnestineBass]

01:26 PM on 10/23/2009

The banks have an entirely different definiton of "free market" than consumers do.