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Politicians Who Look Like Turkeys (PHOTOS)

Huffington Post | Dan Abramson | Posted 11.25.2009 | Comedy

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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. ...

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Michael Bennet Joins Republicans In Challenging Financial Reform Bill

The Denver Post | Posted 11.25.2009 | Denver

Read More: Chris Dodd, Andrew Romanoff, Michael Bennet, Wall Street, Senate Finance Committee, Phil Anschutz, Senate Banking Committee, Denver News

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...

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The Next Trillion Dollar Federal Giveaway To Mega-Banks: Shooting Main Street Lenders For The Sins Of Wall Street

Howard Glaser | Posted 11.24.2009 | Business

Read More: Mortgage Crisis, Main Street, Banks, Chris Dodd, Subprime Mortgages, Barney Frank, Business News
Howard Glaser

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.

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Ryan Grim

Sealed With A Kiss: Dems Unite To Beat GOP Filibuster

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 11.22.2009 | Politics

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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...

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Shahien Nasiripour

Dodd Muted On Bernanke Renomination Prospects

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 11.20.2009 | Business

Read More: Senate Banking Committee, Chris Dodd, Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke, Business News

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...

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Shahien Nasiripour and Ryan Grim

EXCLUSIVE: Two Leading House Dems Will Close $50 Trillion Loophole In Derivatives Reform Bills

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour and Ryan Grim | Posted 11.18.2009 | Business

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The two House Democrats shepherding derivatives reform proposals through Congress will close an existing $50 trillion loophole for foreign currency co...

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Who Are You and What Have You Done With the Community Organizer We Elected President?

Robert Scheer | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Robert Scheer, Treasury Secretary, Timothy Geithner, Barack Obama, Federal Reserve, Neal Wolin, Lawrence Summers, Austan Goolsbee, Robert Rubin, Chris Dodd, Politics News
Robert Scheer

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.

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Jeff Muskus

Business Groups Oppose Emergency H1N1 Paid Sick Leave

HuffingtonPost.com | Jeff Muskus | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Rosa DeLauro, Chris Dodd, George Miller, Swine Flu, H1n1, Politics News

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...

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Dodd's Finacial Reform Bill Strips The Federal Reserve Of Too Much Power, Say Critics

McClatchy | Kevin G. Hall | Posted 11.13.2009 | Business

Read More: Economy, Senate Banking Committee, Regulatory Reform, Federal Reserve, Financial Crisis, Banking Crisis, Chris Dodd, Fiscal Policy, Transparency, Business News

WASHINGTON -- Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd's sweeping new financial overhaul legislation, which proposes to strip the Federal Re...

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Why Sen. Dodd's Opposition to the Federal Reserve is Ill-Conceived

Georges Ugeux | Posted 11.13.2009 | Politics

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Georges Ugeux

Had Senate Banking Committee's Chairman Chris Dodd's proposal been effective before the crisis, where would we be today?

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God to Goldman Sachs: You're Not Doing 'God's Work,' Joins Call for Protest at DC Headquarters

Art Levine | Posted 11.13.2009 | Business

Read More: Goldman Sachs, Nomi Prins, Barney Frank, Financial Reform, Banks, Obama, Dylan Ratigan, Too Big to Fail, Americans for Financial Reform, Public Citizen, Federal Reserve, Chris Dodd, Business News
Art Levine

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."

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The Ghost of Glass-Steagall

Nathan Havey | Posted 11.12.2009 | Business

Read More: Senator Chris Dodd, Nathan Havey, Financial Crisis, Chris Dodd, Financial Reform, Glass-Steagall, Break-Up-the-Big-Banks, Business News
Nathan Havey

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.

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Shahien Nasiripour

State Regulators: Dodd's Bank Bill Creates Another 'Too Big To Fail' Problem

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 11.13.2009 | Business

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State bank regulators are warning that Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd's proposal to create one monolithic federal bank regulator w...

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How Credit Raters Fended Off Oversight From Congress And The SEC

Huffington Post Investigative Fund | Ben Protess and Lagan Sebert | Posted 11.11.2009 | Business

Read More: Christopher Dodd, Paul Kanjorski, Chuck Shumer, Securities and Exchange Commission, Charles Schumer, Regulatory Reform, Derivatives, Floyd Abrams, Financial Crisis, Credit Rating Agencies, Sec, Chris Dodd, Huffington Posts Investigative Fund, Business News

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...

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Ryan Grim

Wall Street Banks Tricking Little Guys Into Lobbying for Them

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 11.13.2009 | Business

Read More: Senate, Lobbying, Derivatives, Banks, Lobbyblog, Derivatives Legislation, Chris Dodd, Wall Street, Transparency, Business News

Wall Street titans, recognizing that they have something of a credibility problem when it comes to opposing regulatory reform, are enlisting more symp...

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Chris Dodd On "Morning Meeting": We Have Financial Regulations From 'The 19th Century'

Posted 11.11.2009 | Business

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Calling our current financial regulatory regime "more an accident than anything else," Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) appeared on Dylan Ratigan's Morning M...

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Shahien Nasiripour and Ryan Grim

Dodd's Banking Bill Takes The Fed Down A Notch Or Two: HELP US DIG THROUGH IT

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour and Ryan Grim | Posted 11.18.2009 | Business

Read More: Senator Chris Dodd, Consumer Financial Protection Agency, Financial Reform, Senate Banking Committee, Banking, Banks, Federal Reserve, Financial Crisis, Chris Dodd, Financial Regulation, Business News

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 ...

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Chris Dodd's New Legislation Would Strip Power From Fed, FDIC

wsj.com | DAMIAN PALETTA | Posted 11.05.2009 | Business

Read More: Fdic, White House, Barney Frank, Financial Reform, Federal Reserve, Chris Dodd, Ben Bernanke, Sheila Bair, Too Big to Fail, Barack Obama, Financial Regulation, Business News

WASHINGTON -- A key Senate lawmaker is readying legislation that would dramatically redraw how the financial system is regulated, setting the chamber ...

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Michael Bennet Fundraiser Hosted By Rahm Emanuel Takes In $628,000

The Denver Post | Michael Riley | Posted 11.02.2009 | Denver

Read More: Andrew Romanoff, 2010, Chicago Fundraiser, Robin Carnahan, Rahm Emanuel, Michael Bennet Fundraising, Chris Dodd, Michael Bennet, Center for Responsive Politics, Denver News

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...

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Ryan Grim

Frank: Banks Shouldn't Pick Their Own Regulators

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 10.28.2009 | Politics

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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 ...

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Is Anybody Still Surprised by Joe Lieberman?

Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 10.28.2009 | Politics

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Lincoln Mitchell

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.

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Dodd Wants Immediate Credit Card Rate Freeze

AP | ANNE FLAHERTY | Posted 10.26.2009 | Business

Read More: Credit Card, Credit Card Rates, Credit Card Rates Freeze, Chris Dodd, Banks, Credit Cards, Business News

WASHINGTON — Senate Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd, who is fighting for his political survival, proposed Monday an immediate interest rat...

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Quigley Ready To Break Ranks With Party Over Dodd, Conrad Subpoenas

Huffington Post | Tim Taliaferro | Posted 10.23.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Mike Quigley Subpoena, Chris Dodd, Friends of Angelo, Countrywide, Mike Quigley, Kent Conrad, Mike Quigley Congress, Chicago News

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...

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Dodd's Bill Protects Customers From Abusive Overdraft Fees

Mary Ann West | Posted 10.22.2009 | Business

Read More: JP Morgan Chase, Carolyn Maloney, Checking Account, Maximize Penalties, The Fairness and Accountability in Receiving (FAIR) Overdraft Coverage Act, Wells Fargo, Bank of America, Chris Dodd, Overdraft Protection, Overdraft Coverage Act of 2009, Stamford, Connecticut, Senate Committee on Banking, Overdraft Fees, Housing, Ben Bernanke, Customer Protection, Mario Livieri, Business News
Mary Ann West

Ninety percent of bank overdraft fees happen to only ten percent of checking account holders, comprising those people who are also the most vulnerable.

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Obama Aides Stand Up To Big Banks On Sunday Morning Talk Shows

nytimes.com | GINGER THOMPSON | Posted 10.19.2009 | Business

Read More: Meet the Press, Valerie Jarrett, Economic Stimulus Package, TARP Money, Rahm Emanuel, David Axelrod, Economy, This Week, Financial Crisis, Obama Administration, Chris Dodd, State of the Union, Business News

WASHINGTON -- Striking a populist tone, several of President Obama's leading advisers on Sunday issued stern warnings to Wall Street. They said big ba...

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