Politicians Who Look Like Turkeys (PHOTOS)
Is it just us, or is the political scene overrun by guys who look like turkeys? It's probably just us, but we thought we'd compile our favorites. ...
Is it just us, or is the political scene overrun by guys who look like turkeys? It's probably just us, but we thought we'd compile our favorites. ...
The Denver Post | Posted 11.25.2009 | Denver
U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet suddenly finds himself the darling of liberals on health care reform, but he appears more cautious on the Democrats' other ma...
Howard Glaser | Posted 11.24.2009 | Business
The Frank and Dodd regulatory reform bills are terribly drafted provisions which will strike a death blow to "main street" lenders and hand over a multi-trillion dollar mortgage market to a few large financial institutions.
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 11.22.2009 | Politics
Harry Reid sealed the biggest legislative victory of his career Saturday night with a kiss. And then a hug. Emotionally reserved doesn't begin to des...
HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 11.20.2009 | Business
Just six weeks after he told Reuters it was essentially a done deal, Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd punted when asked about the l...
HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour and Ryan Grim | Posted 11.18.2009 | Business
The two House Democrats shepherding derivatives reform proposals through Congress will close an existing $50 trillion loophole for foreign currency co...
Robert Scheer | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics
The fatal hallmark of this president's financial policy is that it is being designed by the very people who created the mess that enriched them while impoverishing the nation, and they now want more of the same.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jeff Muskus | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics
Public health officials say the H1N1 flu pandemic is exacerbated by employees going into work sick because they don't get paid time off. But a represe...
McClatchy | Kevin G. Hall | Posted 11.13.2009 | Business
WASHINGTON -- Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd's sweeping new financial overhaul legislation, which proposes to strip the Federal Re...
Georges Ugeux | Posted 11.13.2009 | Politics
Had Senate Banking Committee's Chairman Chris Dodd's proposal been effective before the crisis, where would we be today?
Art Levine | Posted 11.13.2009 | Business
Sources close to God reported Thursday that the Supreme Being was angered at recent comments by Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein that's he's just a banker "doing God's work."
Nathan Havey | Posted 11.12.2009 | Business
Many of the same people who are now creating proposals to reign in the financial industry were, 10 short years ago, the people eating cake as they destroyed the barn door of regulation and let the big banks run free.
HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 11.13.2009 | Business
State bank regulators are warning that Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd's proposal to create one monolithic federal bank regulator w...
Huffington Post Investigative Fund | Ben Protess and Lagan Sebert | Posted 11.11.2009 | Business
Editor's Note: This is the second of three articles by the Investigative Fund on the credit rating companies. Read the first article here. When the n...
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 11.13.2009 | Business
Wall Street titans, recognizing that they have something of a credibility problem when it comes to opposing regulatory reform, are enlisting more symp...
Posted 11.11.2009 | Business
Calling our current financial regulatory regime "more an accident than anything else," Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) appeared on Dylan Ratigan's Morning M...
HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour and Ryan Grim | Posted 11.18.2009 | Business
Scroll down to see how you can help HuffPost dig through Dodd's new bill. "This is not a time for timidity," Senate Banking Committee Chairman Chris ...
wsj.com | DAMIAN PALETTA | Posted 11.05.2009 | Business
WASHINGTON -- A key Senate lawmaker is readying legislation that would dramatically redraw how the financial system is regulated, setting the chamber ...
The Denver Post | Michael Riley | Posted 11.02.2009 | Denver
Anyone looking for evidence of the priority the White House is making the election of Sen. Michael Bennet doesn't have to look much farther than a gli...
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 10.28.2009 | Politics
House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank is backing his colleagues in the upper chamber who have called for an end to the practice of ...
Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 10.28.2009 | Politics
Lieberman's announcement that he will vote against cloture for a health care bill that includes the public option should surprise nobody. His ideological home is no longer in the Democratic Party.
AP | ANNE FLAHERTY | Posted 10.26.2009 | Business
WASHINGTON — Senate Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd, who is fighting for his political survival, proposed Monday an immediate interest rat...
Huffington Post | Tim Taliaferro | Posted 10.23.2009 | Chicago
Seniority, party loyalty and congressional etiquette don't seem to get in the way of Rep. Mike Quigley (D-Ill.). The freshman lawmaker is ready to br...
Mary Ann West | Posted 10.22.2009 | Business
Ninety percent of bank overdraft fees happen to only ten percent of checking account holders, comprising those people who are also the most vulnerable.
nytimes.com | GINGER THOMPSON | Posted 10.19.2009 | Business
WASHINGTON -- Striking a populist tone, several of President Obama's leading advisers on Sunday issued stern warnings to Wall Street. They said big ba...
Huffington Post | Dan Abramson | Posted 11.25.2009 | Comedy