Friday Talking Points -- Git 'Er Done!
Call it the calm before the storm. What everyone's waiting on is for Congress to leap into action. But, in a surprising twist, this time it might actually happen.
Call it the calm before the storm. What everyone's waiting on is for Congress to leap into action. But, in a surprising twist, this time it might actually happen.
Posted 03.06.2010 | Business
WASHINGTON -- While much of the Congressional debate over consumer financial protection has focused on banks, lawmakers have been grappling behind the...
AP | Jim Kuhnhenn | Posted 03.03.2010 | Politics
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Obama administration waded into negotiations over Wall Street regulations Wednesday, calling for limits on the size of financia...
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 03.02.2010 | Politics
Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) reached out to fellow members of his Banking Committee on Monday to float the latest proposal for a compromise Consumer Fina...
Joe The Nerd Ferraro | Posted 03.01.2010 | Politics
Melanie's March concluded last Thursday. What long term effect on the Healthcare Debate remains to be seen. You can see the web site that is an int...
Posted 02.17.2010 | Politics
On Morning Joe today, Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) said that changing the filibuster rules would be "foolish." "There's nothing wrong with partisanship....
Chris Weigant | Posted 02.13.2010 | Politics
President Obama this week has successfully put the Republican Party on the defensive. This could be a fleeting thing, or it could be the start of a whole new way for Obama's administration to operate.
Mike Green | Posted 02.04.2010 | Politics
Eliot Spitzer is back with a vengeance as he blasts Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and Lawrence Summers, the director of Obama's economic council, calling the duo an "abject failure."
The New York Times | Sewell Chan | Posted 02.03.2010 | Politics
The chairman of the Senate Banking Committee warned on Tuesday that the Obama administration's new proposals to rein in Wall Street firms ran the risk...
Posted 02.01.2010 | Business
Brian Moynihan, Bank of America's new CEO, may not oppose the creation of a federal consumer-protection agency, the Wall Street Journal reports this m...
baselinescenario.com | Simon Johnson | Posted 01.21.2010 | Business
Instead of pursuing the issue of those "too big to fail" financial institutions exclusively through legislation, the administration could launch inste...
Victor Corral | Posted 01.20.2010 | Politics
On January 19, amidst reports that Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd (D-Conn.) is considering ditching his proposal for a Consumer Fi...
washingtonpost.com | Brady Dennis | Posted 01.07.2010 | Business
Lawmakers, financial industry representatives, consumer advocates and other observers offered varying predictions Wednesday about how Dodd's pending r...
Associated Press | Posted 01.06.2010 | Politics
HARTFORD, Conn. (Associated Press) -- Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal says he will seek to succeed fellow Democrat Christopher Dodd in...
AP | DALE WETZEL | Posted 01.06.2010 | Politics
BISMARCK, N.D. — North Dakota Sen. Byron Dorgan said Wednesday he decided against running for a fourth term because he wanted to pursue other op...
The Hill | Posted 12.24.2009 | Politics
Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) on Wednesday ripped the Senate's "newest members" for the lack of comity in the upper chamber. In a floor speech Wednesda...
AP | JIM KUHNHENN | Posted 12.23.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — The top Senate Democrat and Republican negotiating new Wall Street regulation said Wednesday they expect to resolve their differenc...
New York Times | ANDREW MARTIN | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics
In the latest attack on overdraft fees charged by banks, Christopher J. Dodd, the Connecticut Democrat who heads the Senate Banking Committee, introdu...
Wall Street Journal | JANET ADAMY and GREG HITT | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics
The drug industry stands to gain in a health-care overhaul by getting tens of millions of newly insured customers, while insurance companies -- especi...
Washington Post | Perry Bacon Jr. | Posted 10.18.2009 | Politics
Three senators are working on the bill behind closed doors. Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) sits at the head of a wooden table at hi...
Chris Weigant | Posted 10.15.2009 | Politics
A football locker room. Hundreds of Democrats are sitting on benches, to hear Coach's halftime pep talk in the Health Care Reform Superbowl. Some appear exhausted, some appear battered.
Washington Post | Nancy Trejos | Posted 10.07.2009 | Business
Bank of America said it will not raise credit card interest rates before February, when a law restricting industry practices takes effect, unless a ca...
Chris Weigant | Posted 08.08.2009 | Politics
Obama again refused to give a strong defense of the public option himself. By doing so, he just dug the hole deeper. What exactly does Obama stand for in the health care debate?
Towelroad | Posted 07.23.2009 | Politics
Chris Dodd has come out for full marriage equality. Dodd published an op-ed in the Meriden Record-Journal yesterday and on his blog, saying, "the fact...
Laura Carlsen | Posted 06.20.2009 | Politics
A little-known measure buried in the U.S. 2009 Supplemental Bill would provide millions of dollars to corrupt Mexican security forces engaged in an unwinnable drug war.
Chris Weigant | Posted 03.13.2010 | Politics