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Darrell Issa, Another Lying Liar in the Countrywide VIP Loan Story

David Fiderer | Posted 10.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Subprime Mortgage Crisis, Kent Conrad, Darrell Issa, Countrywide Financial, Barney Frank, Associated Press, Fannie Mae, Chris Dodd, Angelo Mozilo, Wall Street Journal, Ris Dodd, Mike Quigley Congress, Mike Quigley, Countrywide, Friends of Angelo, Mike Quigley Subpoena, Politics News
David Fiderer

Robert Feinberg is the "whistleblower" who accuses Chris Dodd of receiving "sweetheart deals" on his home mortgage. His statements and stolen company documents represent the only direct evident in Rep. Issa's misleading report.

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Dealbreaker: Five Reasons Co-Ops Will Fail

Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 08.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Blue Cross, Health Care Cooperatives, Public Plan Option, Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound, Kent Conrad, Health Reform, Co-Opers, Politics News
Richard (RJ) Eskow

Co-ops are not a bad idea -- if they are offered alongside a public option. As a replacement for them, however, they're a dealbreaker.

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Senator Dodd's Accusers: Lying Liars and the Reporters Who Enable Them

David Fiderer | Posted 08.28.2009 | Media

Read More: Larry Kudlow, Associated Press, Chris Dodd, Portfolio Magazine, Kent Conrad, Darrell Issa, Countrywide Financial, Cnbc, Media News
David Fiderer

There's ironclad proof that Sen. Dodd's accuser in a mortgage scandal lied from the start. But some reporters aren't interested in facts that undercut the scandal narrative.

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Health Policy Hashed Out In Senate Over Unhealthy Food

The New York Times | Posted 08.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Olympia Snowe, Michael B. Enzi, Jeff Bingaman, Cbo, Chuck Grassley, Kent Conrad, Health Care Reform, Medicare, Medicaid, Max Baucus, Congressional Budget Office, Health Care, Politics News

On the agenda is the revamping of the American health care system, possibly the most complex legislation in modern history. But on the table, in a con...

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Jeff Muskus

Obama Calls Into Health Care Negotiations

HuffingtonPost.com | Jeff Muskus | Posted 08.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Senate Finance Committee, John Kerry, Health Care Reform, Coalition of the Willing, Max Baucus, Tom Barthold, Kent Conrad, Health Care, Health Reform, Barack Obama, Politics News

The phone rang toward the end of Max Baucus' meeting Tuesday night: It was President Obama. Obama has been pushing for a health care bill before Cong...

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Jeff Muskus

Finance Committee Making "Headway" But Rejects Deadlines

HuffingtonPost.com | Jeff Muskus | Posted 08.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Max Baucus, Kent Conrad, Senate Finance Committee, Health Reform, Health Care, Politics News

Key negotiators in the Senate Finance Committee refused to set a date for their version of health care reform after their Tuesday meeting, but said th...

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UPDATE: Dem Senator Denies Bloomberg Story

The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 07.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Rahm Emanuel, Kent Conrad, Emanuel Public Option, Obama Health Care, Max Baucus, Obama Public Option, Politics News

UPDATE: Sen. Kent Conrad (D-N.D.) denied the Bloomberg story, saying Rahm Emanuel never said President Obama was open to giving up the public option. ...

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Ryan Grim

GOP Opposing Public Health Care No Matter What It's Called

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 07.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Chuck Schumer, Republicans Health Care, Health Care, Kent Conrad, Conrad Schumer Health Care, Politics News

Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) said on Tuesday afternoon that he is "losing confidence that Senate Republicans will ever agree" to the creation of a na...

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Ryan Grim

Conrad Moves Closer To Public Health Care After Negotiations

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 07.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Kent Conrad Public Health Care, Conrad Public Health Care, Kent Conrad, Politics News

Sen. Kent Conrad (D-N.D.) moved sharply toward public health care Monday, saying that he could "absolutely" support major parts of Sen. Chuck Schumer'...

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Sam Stein

Dean On Conrad's Co-op Plan: Insurance Industry Licking Its Lips

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Conrad Co-Op, Kent Conrad, Howard Dean Co-Op, Howard Dean, Co-Op Proposal, Conrad, Andy Stern, Politics News

Sen. Kent Conrad's proposal for a cooperative approach to health insurance coverage has created a unique challenge for progressive health care advocat...

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Sam Stein

Key Centrists Rally Around Conrad's Co-op Plan For Health Care (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: State of the Union, Susan Collins, Conrad Co-Ops, Co-Ops Coverage, Kent Conrad, Public Plan, Health Care Coverage, Ben Nelson, Nelson Health Care, Video, Politics News

Two centrist Senators who will play vital roles in the health care debate, said on Sunday that they were intrigued by the idea of structuring co-opera...

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Health Reform: Ideas At Work vs. Self-Negating Arguments

Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 07.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: New America Foundation, Public Plan Option, Kent Conrad, Health CEOs for Health Reform, Health Cooperatives, Health Reform, Politics News
Richard (RJ) Eskow

Let's redesign our health system so that it encourages ideas that work. And how will we know what works? In our country's tried-and-true way: by letting the people decide.

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Conrad: Public Plan Doesn't Have The Votes In Senate

The Washington Post | Posted 07.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Kent Conrad Healthcare, Public Health Insurance Plan, Kent Conrad, Senate Budget Committee, Healthcare Reform, Healthcare, G-11, Politics News

Earlier today, Sen. Kent Conrad, the North Dakota Democrat who chairs the Senate Budget Committee, introduced a "potential compromise" on the public p...

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Ryan Grim

Conrad To Health Care Reformers: You Don't Have A Vote

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 07.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care for America Now, Kent Conrad, Health Care Reform, Universal Health Care, Health Care, Politics News

Sen. Kent Conrad (D-N.D.) said Wednesday that he is "frankly not terribly interested" in what the major health care reform coalition thinks and is pus...

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Why Does Senator Conrad Want to Humiliate President Obama at the G-20 Summit?

Robert Naiman | Posted 05.01.2009 | World

Read More: Foreign Aid, G20 Summit, Richard Lugar, g20, John Kerry, Kent Conrad, Foreign Policy, President Obama, London-United Kingdom, United Kingdom, World News
Robert Naiman

Cutting the president's international aid request this week will undercut President Obama at the very moment he will be trying to argue for a coordinated international response.

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Ryan Grim

Senators Get Nasty: "You're Good" ... "Your Wife Said The Same Thing" (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 04.27.2009 | Politics

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Marking up budget legislation can be a brutal affair, often beginning early and lasting long into the night. But buried within the hours of debate...

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Washington's Most Popular Tie: What's Behind This Week's Sartorial Sensation? (PHOTOS)

The Huffington Post | Anya Strzemien | Posted 04.26.2009 | Style

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There's one tie that's been getting a lot of love on Capitol Hill this week. Remember how Secretary Geithner and Chairman Bernanke dressed identically...

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Sam Stein

Orszag On President's And Senate's Budgets: Not Identical Twins, But Brothers Who Look Alike

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 04.25.2009 | Politics

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Office of Management and Budget Director Peter Orszag downplayed the major structural changes that Democrats in Congress are making to the Obama budge...

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Obama Fighting "Centrists" In Own Party On Budget

AP | DAVID ESPO and ANDREW TAYLOR | Posted 04.25.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama's allies rallied around his ambitious budget blueprint as he visited the Capitol on Wednesday, and only hour...

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Return AIG Bonuses Or Be Fired: Dem Senator

AP | Posted 04.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Kent Conrad, AIG Bailout, Aig Bonuses, Aig, Conrad Aig, Kent Conrad Aig, Bonus Outrage, Politics News

WASHINGTON — Return the money or be fired. In the view of the Senate Budget Committee chairman, those are the appropriate choices for AIG worke...

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Sam Stein

VP's Economist: Budget Reconciliation Shouldn't Be Used For Major Legislation

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 04.22.2009 | Politics

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The Vice President's chief economic adviser said Sunday that the White House agreed that "major" energy or health care policy should not be part of th...

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Kent Conrad: Obama's Budget Lacks Votes To Pass

The Hill | Walter Alarkon | Posted 04.10.2009 | Politics

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President Obama's budget doesn't have enough support from lawmakers to pass, the Senate Budget Committee chairman said Tuesday. Sen. Kent Conrad (D-...

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Ryan Grim

Top Dem Senator: "Hundreds Of Billions More" Needed For Bank Bailouts

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 03.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bailouts for Banks, Bailout, Bank Bailout, Kent Conrad, Politics News

Sen. Kent Conrad, chairman of the Budget Committee, warned Monday that the financial sector would need "hundreds of billions more" in federal dollars ...

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Friday Talking Points [48] -- Throwing Out The Rulebook

Chris Weigant | Posted 10.20.2008 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

Back in Volume 36 of this Friday Talking Points column, I pointed out what seemed to me to be an obvious observation -- that the media was going a lot...

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Chris Dodd, Kent Conrad Tied To Countrywide Scandal

Conde Nast Portfolio | Daniel Golden | Posted 06.21.2008 | Politics

Read More: Dodd Countrywide Scandal, Chris Dodd Countrywide Loan, Alphonso Jackson, Conrad Countrywide Scandal, Chris Dodd, Kent Conrad, Kent Conrad Countrywide, Christopher Dodd, Politics News

Two U.S. senators, two former Cabinet members, and a former ambassador to the United Nations received loans from Countrywide Financial through a littl...

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