Richard Shelby

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Rush Transcript of the Senate Banking Committee Hearing with Paulson and Bernanke
From The Room: Rush Transcript of the Senate Banking Committee Hearing with Paulson and Bernanke
September 24, 2008 - SEN. CHRIS DODD (D-CT): "Secretary Paulson, I've looked over your proposal. It is stunning and unprecedented in both its scope and lack of detail." TREASURY SECRETARY HENRY PAULSON: La la la I can't hear you! Right, guys? Ha. DODD: "...and it would allow this secretary and his...
Filed under: Senate Banking Committee Hearing, Senate Banking Committee, Senate Banking Committee transcript, Paulson testimony, Cox testimony, Bernanke testimony, Chris Dodd, Ben Bernanke, Henry Paulson, Christopher Cox, Richard Shelby, Michael Enzi, Dick Cheney Chuck Schumer
Pick the pork: a 23/6 ethics quiz
Pick the pork: a 23/6 ethics quiz
April 11, 2008 - Last year, Congress passed some pretty tough ethics rules to curtail pork-barrel spending; then, because they are Congress, they immediately found ways to slither around those rules. Not only do we have to beware the "hard" earmarks (line items proposed in legislation), but now there are scads of h...
Filed under: Citizens Against Government Waste, GAO, Government Accountability Office, earmarks, congressional earmarks, appropriation bills, authorization bills, Senate Appropriations Committee, Ted Stevens, Thad Cochran, Richard Shelby, US budget, Congressional budget, Congress ethics, soft earmarks, hard earmarks
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