Rep. Elijah Cummings wants to help out-of-work homeowners with the bailout money banks are returning to the government. The Maryland Democrat announce...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein and Arthur Delaney | Posted 07.11.2009 | Politics
News that banks participating in the Troubled Asset Relief Program would be allowed to repay $68 billion in government funds has sparked a debate amon...
HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 07.06.2009 | Politics
Republican leadership in the House of Representatives wants the Treasury Department to give taxpayers their money back when bailed-out firms repay gov...
HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 06.22.2009 | Politics
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said on Thursday that he has "no plans to request additional funding" for the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief P...
HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney and Ryan Grim | Posted 06.19.2009 | Politics
Now that some bailout recipients have begun sending checks back to the Treasury Department, the question has become: Whose money is that? Deficit haw...
HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 06.15.2009 | Politics
Toward the end of a long House Judiciary Committee hearing with Attorney General Eric Holder, Rep. Brad Sherman said he'd heard enough about torture a...
HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 06.13.2009 | Politics
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner announced Wednesday morning that the Treasury Department plans to give small banks access to bailout funds returne...
HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 07.12.2009 | Politics