Senator Carl Levin

Goldman Backlash Good News For Volcker Rule

Reuters | Posted 05.15.2012

Read More: Dodd-Frank Act, Goldman Sachs, Senator Carl Levin, Video, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, Public Citizen, Reuters, Resignation Letter, New York Times, Federal Financial Analytics, Volcker Rule, Paul Volcker, Muppets, Greg Smith, Business News

* Departing exec's editorial calls out treatment of clients * Reform advocates say shows need for tough Volcker rule * S...

Read Whole Story

Dem Chairman Faults White House, Fellow Dems For Detainee Policy

AP | By DONNA CASSATA | Posted 11.18.2011

Read More: Sen. Dianne Feinstein, Suspected Terrorists, Senator Carl Levin, Video, Terrorists, Defense Bill, Dianne Feinstein, Senate Armed Services Committee, Carl Levin, Senate Intelligence Committee, Detainees, Al Qaeda, Osama Bin Laden, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- The chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee on Friday faulted the White House and fellow Democrats for mischaracterizing provisi...

Read Whole Story

Two Students Who Put Pie In The Face Of Carl Levin Sentenced

AP | COREY WILLIAMS | Posted 10.30.2011

Read More: Grand Rapids, Pie in the Face, Pie, Politics News, Senator Carl Levin, Protest, Carl Levin Pie in the Face, Carl Levin, Michigan, Foreign Policy, Politics News

DETROIT — A federal judge in Grand Rapids sentenced two recent college graduates to 30 days in jail for protesting U.S. Sen. Carl Levin's stance...

Read Whole Story

Taibbi: No Uproar Over Potential Tax Holiday Deal In Debt Ceiling Deal?

Rolling Stone | MATT TAIBBI | Posted 09.20.2011

Read More: Matt Taibbi, Unemployment Rate, Debt Ceiling, President Barack Obama, Jobs, Jobless, Corporate Taxes, Senator Carl Levin, Ira, Apple, Wall Street, Cisco, Tax Holiday, Rolling Stone, Job Creation, Tea Party, Ge, Business News

I’ve been in and out of DC a few times in recent weeks and one thing I keep hearing is that there is a growing, and real, possibility that a second ...

Read Whole Story

Key Senator To Obama: Withdraw At Least 15,000 Troops From Afghanistan

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 08.21.2011

Read More: Senator Carl Levin, Robert Gates, Afghanistan, War in Afghanistan, Obama War in Afghanistan, David Petraeus, Hillary Clinton, Carl Levin, Afghanistan Drawdown, Barack Obama, Troop Drawdown, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin (D-Mich.) has put forward a baseline number of troops that the president must announ...

Read Whole Story

Matt Taibbi: Goldman Could Achieve 'Corrupt-Enterprise Nirvana'

Rolling Stone | MATT TAIBBI | Posted 07.11.2011

Read More: Lloyd Blankfein, Senator Tom Coburn, Goldman Sachs, Senator Carl Levin, Timberwolf Deal, Morgan Stanley, Wall Street, Countrywide Loans, Economic Crisis, Sec, Daniel Sparks, Subprime Loans, Corporate Fraud, Housing Crisis, Hudson Deal, Business News

They weren't murderers or anything; they had merely stolen more money than most people can rationally conceive of, from their own customers, in a few ...

Read Whole Story

Inside Job's Charles Ferguson Wins Oscar, Airs Frustration with Obama

Joshua Kors | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Best Documentary, Capitalism: A Love Story, Senator Carl Levin, Columbia Univeristy, Wall Street, Columbia School of Business, Inside Job, Academy Award Nominees, Charles Ferguson, Glenn Hubbard, Frederic Mishkin, Michael Moore, Iraq, Matt Damon, Oscars, No End in Sight, Entertainment News

Ferguson spoke with me about his new film, Obama's disappointingly silent reaction to it and why he feels this president has an even stricter "with us or against us" policy than his predecessor.

Read Post

WATCH: John McCain Responds To Psy-Ops Claims

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Psyops, Video, Senator Carl Levin, John McCain, Carl Levin Afghanistan, Mccain, Afghanistan, John Mccain Afghanistan, Psy-Ops, Senator John McCain, William Caldwell, Mccain Psyops, Sen. John McCain, Carl Levin, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) responded on Sunday to a report that he was the target of "psychological operations" by the U.S. military to...

Read Whole Story

White House, Democratic Senators Push for DADT Repeal This Year

Karen Ocamb | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Don't Ask Don't Tell, Senator Joe Lieberman, Senator Diane Feinstein, Senator Carl Levin, Dadt Repeal, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Senator Barbara Boxer, Lieberman Dadt, Lieberman Don't Ask Don't Tell, Don't Ask Don't Tell Repeal, Politics News

Sen. Joe Lieberman and several Democratic senators are holding a press conference Thursday morning "to bring this vote up."

Read Post

The Prince and the Punishment

Christopher Brauchli | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Senator Carl Levin, Government Contractors, Xe Blackwater, Erik Prince, Xe, Blackwater Worldwide, World News

It's hard to understand why Erik Prince is mad. His company, Xe, is once again able to bid on and get contracts with the government and won't be subject to criminal charges.

Read Post

Carl Levin, Michigan Senator, Gets Hit In Face With Pie During Q&A Session

The Huffington Post | Nick Wing | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Levin, Carl Levin, Senator Carl Levin, Levin Pie, Carl Levin Pie, Levin Pie in the Face, Carl Levin Pie in the Face, Levin Hit With Pie, Carl Levin Hit With Pie, Politics News

Senator Carl Levin (D-Michigan) joined a well-documented list of famous people who have taken pies in the face Monday, when a Michigan State student h...

Read Whole Story

The Death of Goldman Sachs

Steven G. Brant | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lloyd Blankfein, Goldman Sachs, Arthur Andersen, Senator Carl Levin, Wall Street, Economic Crisis, Enron, Senator Joseph McCarthy, Business News

Criminal behavior. No trust. Reputation destroyed. No customers. I expect Goldman Sachs to be out of business by the end of this year and maybe before the November election. That's just my opinion, of course.

Read Post

Peter Baker and David Herszenhorn: Wall Street Reform Reporting Lacking

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Senator Carl Levin, Peter Baker, John Paulson, Financial Reform, Senate Republicans, President Barack Obama, Enron, New York Times, David Herszenhorn, Fitch, Moody?S, Standard & Poor?S, Media News

After all the suffering caused by the massive layoffs and home foreclosures that have devastated communities, the best our elite journalists can do is tell us that they have no way to discern who is lying and who is telling the truth?

Read Post

Blackstone Speaks Out Against Tax Hike On Executives

BusinessWeek | Ryan J. Donmoyer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Taxes, Financial Reform Bill, Senator Carl Levin, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Venture Capital, House Ways and Means Committee, Blackstone, Charles Schumer, Family Farms, Business News

Blackstone Group LP and other firms protesting a plan by Congress to increase taxes on executives of investment partnerships are focusing on what they...

Read Whole Story

Gates, Mullen Signal Chain of Command: Stop Wasting Time Discharging Gays

Aubrey Sarvis | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: 9th-Circuit-Court-of-Appeals, Don't Ask Don't Tell, Senator Carl Levin, Lgbt, President Obama, Senate Armed Services Committee, DOD General Counsel Jeh Johnson, Sldn, Berlin Wall, Admiral Mullen Joint Chiefs, Pentagon Working Group, President Reagan, Defense Secretary Gates, Politics News

As much as we welcome these helpful changes coming from Secretary Gates and his DOD General Counsel, interim steps are not a substitute for repeal.

Read Post

Progressive Senators Fight for Real Bank Reform

Mary Bottari | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Senator Chris Dodd, Senator Carl Levin, Sherrod Brown, Financial Crisis, Banks, Banking Crisis, Senator Jeff Merkley, Chris Dodd, Bernie Sanders, Banking Reform, Business News

Dodd has said that he will unveil his new bill on Monday. Take your time Senator. Get it right this time. It is not an exaggeration to say that the future of the world may depend on it.

Read Post

Prop 8 Trial + DADT Debate = Death Rattle of the Right Wing

Rick Jacobs | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Don't Ask Don't Tell, Family Research Council, Senator Carl Levin, Larry King, Prop 8, Rachel Maddow, Dan Choi, Gen. Wesley Clark, Courage Campaign, Tony Perkins, Politics News

The Family Research Council's Tony Perkins threatened that America "might have to return to the draft" if it allows gays and lesbians to serve openly, because so many soldiers would quit or never enlist.

Read Post

Hip, Hip, Hooray for Mullen and Gates!

Aubrey Sarvis | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Defense Secretary Robert Gates, Senator Carl Levin, President Obama, Senator Mark Udall, Senate Armed Services Committee, Rep. Patrick Murphy, C-Span, Admiral Mullen Joint Chiefs, Don't Ask Don't Tell Repeal, Don't Ask Don't Tell, Politics News

Our gay service members need assurances that Congress will end the only Federal law that legitimizes discrimination against a particular class of people this year, rather than phasing it out over several years.

Read Post

Senate Probe Could Target Cheney For Interrogation Briefings

Mother Jones | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: CIA Interrogations, Senator Carl Levin, Dick-Cheney-Interrogation, Cia, Diane Feinstein, Senate Intelligence Committee, Guantanamo, CIA Torture, Enhanced Interrogations, War on Terror, Gitmo, Dick Cheney, Torture, Politics News

Dick Cheney, as vice president, was once the president of the Senate. Now he could become the target of a Senate investigation, for the Senate intelli...

Read Whole Story

Sen. Levin: CIA Docs Do Not Prove Cheney's Torture Claim

The Plumline | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: CIA Interrogations, Carl Levin, Senator Carl Levin, Dick Cheney, CIA Documents, Torture, Politics News

There's some important news about Dick Cheney and torture in a speech that Senator Carl Levin gave before the Foreign Policy Administration this week....

Read Whole Story

Detroit Gets 10% of What AIG Already Has Received from TARP

Steve Parker | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Europe, Congress, President Obama, Representative Sandy Levin, Chicago, TARP Money, Captive Imports, Detroit Three, Walter Reuther, Cars, Washington DC, Asia, American International Group, Joe Kennedy, Charles Ponzi, Yale Galanter, Ford Motor Co, Fdr, Chrysler, Aig, Tom Wolfe, Senate, Senator Carl Levin, Harvard University, Wall Street, General Motors, Uaw, Masters of the Universe, US Chamber of Commerce, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Business News

Why does Detroit get only 10% of what the banks and Wall Street have been loaned?

Read Post

Some Good -- and Fun -- Automotive News for the Holidaze

Steve Parker | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cell Phones, Tarp, Automotive News, Good Sam Club, Chevy Volt, Troubled Assets Relief Program, Tata Motors, Honda Accord, Rose Parade Committee, Chrysler, Rick Wagoner, Honda, Federal Reserve, Cars, F1, The Oscars, Ford, FCX Clarity, General Motors Acceptance Corporation, Gmac, Representative Sandy Levin, Senator Carl Levin, Jean Shepherd, General Motors, Japanese Cars, Suburban, Hyundai, Christmas, Pasadena Rose Parade, Nobuhiko Kawamoto, GMAC Bailout, Jaguar, Hyundai Excel, Toyota, Chevrolet, Washington DC, American Honda, Land Rover, Red Ryder Bb Gun, Floorplanning, Formula One, Chevrolet Cruze, Asimo, Daisy Red Ryder Bb Gun, Landline Phones, Rolls-Royce Phantom, Honda Super Cub, Pasadena, Santa Claus, Subaru, Hawaii, Business News

Really wish there were better news to post about, but the auto industry is reeling worldwide, and there's no better example than Toyota.

Read Post

Another Big Test for Obama

William Fisher | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Donald Rumsfeld, Senator John McCain, Senator Carl Levin, Guantanamo Bay Detainees, Barack Obama, 100 Days, Politics News

On the heels of a bipartisan Congressional report blaming high-level officials of the Bush Administration for employing harsh interrogation techniques...

Read Post

Obama's Herculean Challenge

Rob Kall | Posted 05.25.2011

Obama will fail if he tries anything "inside the box." The only way he's going to pull us out of this multifaceted manure pile is by being open to big bold ideas and then taking Herculean steps.

Read Post

Sen. Levin Calls For UBS To Clean Up Or Shut Down Over Tax Evasion

Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Senator Carl Levin, UBS Shut Down, Swiss Bank, Tax Fraud, UBS Close, Tax Evasion, UBS Probe, Carl Levin, Tax Cheats, Ubs, Business News

**UPDATE** The Wall Street Journal reports that UBS will close private-banking operations for U.S. clients: A UBS AG executive told a U.S. Senate pa...

Read Whole Story