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Neil W. McCabe Human Events 1/1/2013 Five Republicans and three Democrats voted against the “fiscal cliff” compromise crafted by Vice-President Joseph R. Biden Jr., and the Senate’s Republican leadership that passed the chamber Jan. 1 with 89 votes. The five Republicans were: Sen. Charles E. Grassley (R.-Iowa), Sen. Michael Lee (R.-Utah), Sen. Rand H. Paul […] January 2nd, 2013 | Tags: "fiscal cliff", Congressional Budget Office (CBO), debt ceiling, executive authority, Majority Leader Eric Cantor, national debt, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Rep. Paul Ryan, Sen. Chuck Grassley, Sen. Marco Rubio, Sen. Mike Lee, Sen. Mitch McConnell, Sen. Rand Paul, Sen. Richard Shelby, Sen. Ron Johnson, Sen. Tom Carper, Sen. Tom Harkin, Senator Michael Bennett, small business, Speaker John Boehner, Vice President Joe Biden | Category: 14th Amendment, Congress, Federal spending, Taxes | Comments are closed
Tom Polansek Reuters 12/6/2011 Chicago–For the first time in 25 years, Minnesota farmer Dean Tofteland has missed his deadline to buy seed for next spring’s corn and soybean crops. With $200,000 of his money yet to be returned from the accounts of MF Global, his former broker, the 49-year-old farmer has missed a $5,000 discount […] December 6th, 2011 | Tags: bankruptcy, CME Group, commodities, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, food, Jon Corzine, MF Global, Sen. Richard Shelby | Category: Agriculture and Food Production, Banking and finance | Comments are closed
Obama’s exclusive George Soros waivers Michelle Malkin 7/29/2011 …This week, for example, Soros announced he was “quitting” the hedge-fund industry. The headlines emphasized his decision to return about $750 million to outside investors (a drop in his $30 billion bucket of personal wealth). He’s reconstituting the business that landed him on Forbes magazine’s “wealthiest people” […] August 4th, 2011 | Tags: cronyism, Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, hedge funds, hypocrisy, Sen. Richard Shelby | Category: Banking and finance, Barack Obama, Congress, George Soros, legislation, Politics | Comments are closed
Jon Ward The Daily Caller 4/30/2010 One day after Republicans said they had secured a deal on a financial regulation bill that would allow them to move forward on debating the bill, they denounced the legislation and said it would not accomplish any of their goals for preventing bailouts or making the markets more secure. […] April 30th, 2010 | Tags: bailouts, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), Sen. Blanche Lincoln, Sen. Christopher Dodd, Sen. Richard Shelby, Sen. Saxby Chambliss | Category: banking regulations, Barack Obama, Goldman Sachs, Right to Privacy, Taxes | Comments are closed
Wallace Witkowski MarketWatch Pulse via FoxBusiness.com 4/28/2010 SAN FRANCISCO — Sens. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., and Richard Shelby, R-Ala., are close to an agreement to give the federal government the power to unwind failed financial firms that threaten to destabilize the economy, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday on its Web site, citing people familiar with […] April 28th, 2010 | Tags: Sen. Christopher Dodd, Sen. Richard Shelby | Category: Banking and finance, legislation | Comments are closed
Rick Moran The American Thinker 4/26/2010 You might recall that it happened with the jobs bill as well. Republicans negotiate in good faith, an agreement is reached, and the president pulls the rug out from under the GOP’s feet: Robert Kuttner writing at Huffpo: Although Senate Banking Committee Chair Chris Dodd and his sometime […] April 26th, 2010 | Tags: bipartisan, Rep. Barney Frank, Sen. Christopher Dodd, Sen. Richard Shelby | Category: banking regulations, Barack Obama, legislation | Comments are closed
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