Months too late, the Obama administration is pushing the finance industry for further action to stem the vast tide of home foreclosures. The administ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.31.2009 | Politics
The Senate on Thursday rejected an effort to stave off home foreclosures by a vote of 51 to 45. It was an overwhelming defeat, with the bill's backers...
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.31.2009 | Politics
Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) introduced legislation in the Senate Thursday which would allow homeowners in bankruptcy to renegotiate -- or cramdown -- mo...
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.30.2009 | Politics
Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) has been battling the banks the last few weeks in an effort to get 60 votes lined up for bankruptcy reform. He's losing. O...
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.30.2009 | Politics
The bankruptcy reform bill that passed the House weeks ago amid much fanfare is on course to be gutted by the Senate Thursday. Senate Majority Leader ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.28.2009 | Politics
After weeks of negotiations between Senate Democrats and major players in the financial industry, a compromise bankruptcy reform deal has been reached...
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 04.03.2009 | Politics
Capitol Hill is not a place where staffers become famous. The focus is on members of Congress, while aides remain in the background, unnamed and unrem...
David Sirota | Posted 01.15.2009 | Politics
Remember when progressives protested the 2005 bankruptcy bill? A new report says that bill is playing a decisive role in the foreclosure surge that undermined our entire economy.
William Fisher | Posted 11.02.2008 | Politics
Tonight, Sarah Palin and Joe Biden will engage in the first and only debate for vice presidential candidates in the 2008 election. Who will "win" thi...
Jackson Williams | Posted 04.20.2009 | Politics
Of all the presidential contenders lined up on the stage in last year's AFL-CIO Chicago debate, Biden was the only one who had voted for the 2005 bill.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jeff Muskus | Posted 08.28.2009 | Business