Surprisingly, the best informed and most relentless financial reform crusader is not a committee chair at all but a back-bench Senator from Washington state, Maria Cantwell.
HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour and Ryan Grim | Posted 11.20.2009 | Business
The effort to impose new restrictions on the financial system falls short of true reform if there's a gigantic loophole for foreign exchange derivativ...
HuffPost Investigative Fund | Keith Epstein And Ben Protess | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics
Like many federal agencies contemplating reform these days, the Commodities Futures Trading Commission is hearing a lot from the industry it regulates...
HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 11.10.2009 | Business
In describing the complex and little-understood world of derivatives trading as "a sophisticated form of gambling," three U.S. Senators proposed legis...
The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 11.02.2009 | Politics
A Democratic senator said on Monday that she's "not sure" why Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner still has his job, calling his financial reform plan...
Sen. Maria Cantwell | Posted 10.30.2009 | Politics
Our nation's financial sector can act as a great force for job creation and production. We should not stand by and let their dimly lit casino bring us all down once again.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.16.2009 | Business
On today's Morning Meeting, Dylan Ratigan brought on Senator Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) to discuss the ongoing attempts to achieve a measure of financia...
Miles J. Zaremski | Posted 10.05.2009 | Politics
The public option for health care is far from death's door. But it is our job to convince Democrats, that the sine qua non of health care is the public option.
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 10.01.2009 | Politics
The Senate Finance Committee narrowly passed an amendment Thursday from Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) that moves the conservative panel as close as it...
Paul Abrams | Posted 11.23.2009 | Politics
Overall, it was a good opening day. One could measure how good it was by the sour faces and wounded-appearing body language of the Republicans.
Lanny Davis | Posted 11.22.2009 | Politics
What exactly does the HAA accomplish that could possibly attract such broad, bipartisan support in the U.S. Senate? Universal health insurance coverage and immediate deficit neutrality in the first two years.
Miami Herald | Les Blumenthal | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics
Sen. Maria Cantwell said unless significant changes were made she would be unable to support a major health care reform bill unveiled Wednesday by the...
Mother Jones | David Corn and Daniel Schulman | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics
During his confirmation hearing last year, Scott O'Malia, a Republican Senate aide nominated to be a commissioner on the Commodity Futures Trading Com...
Karin Tanabe | Posted 10.17.2009 | Style
Michelle Obama and her well-dressed entourage came to town and Washingtonians aren't likened to burlap-clad trolls anymore.
Michael Markarian | Posted 08.13.2009 | Politics
The flagrant disregard that dogfighters routinely show for society's norms was replaced by the snap of handcuffs and the slap of 30 or so arrest warrants.
Huffington Post | Hilary Moss | Posted 07.27.2009 | Style
Last week we asked you to select the sexiest senator on Capitol Hill. Nearly 40,000 of you voted, and although many of you wrote in former Illinois S...
Huffington Post | Hilary Moss | Posted 07.19.2009 | Style
The 100 members of the U.S. Senate are constantly in the public eye, so we couldn't help but notice that from the legislative floor to D.C. nightlife,...
Michael Markarian | Posted 05.04.2009 | Politics
We see cruelty and abuse every day in our work, and it's important to take a step back and celebrate the dedicated and compassionate people who are making a meaningful difference.
Associated Press | Matthew Daly | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
A former aide to Sen. Maria Cantwell is in federal custody after being arrested on a charge of attempting to sexually exploit a minor. James Michael ...
Robert Kuttner | Posted 11.23.2009 | Politics