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Blog Entries by Rep. Edolphus Towns from 10/2009

Are We Ready for a Flu Pandemic?

| Posted 10.06.2009 | Healthy Living
Read More: Swine Flu Vaccine, Swine Flu Outbreak, Health, Swine Flu Pandemic, Swine Flu, H1N1 Vaccine, H1N1 Influenza, Flu Pandemic, Flu, H1n1, Vaccines, Healthy Living News

With the height of the flu season quickly approaching and our children heading back into the classroom, I recently led a full Committee hearing to examine the Obama Administration's Flu Vaccine program.

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Credit Rating Agencies and the Next Financial Crisis

| Posted 10.19.2009 | Business
Read More: Wall Street Crisis, Wall Street, Bailout, Finance, Financial Reform, Business News, Congressional Oversight, Financial Crisis, Credit Rating Agencies, Business News

The Moody's business model of "Leave No Fingerprints" might be alright if the credit rating agencies had not played a starring role in the collapse of the financial system. For that reason, this cannot continue.

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AIG's Misguided TARP-Funded Bonuses

| Posted 10.27.2009 | Business
Read More: Tarp, Aig, Banking Crisis, Financial Crisis, Bailout, Wall Street, Wall Street Bonuses, Aig Bonuses, Business News

The American people have been eager to understand how the government failed to prevent bonus payments from going out the door -- payments that were paid out with their taxpayer dollars.

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