Tag: congress
member name: Bill Lawrence
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September 29, 2008 03:47 PM EDT --
The House Republicans failed this afternoon to muster enough support to join Democrats in passing the rescue package that would, it is hoped, boost confidence in the viability of the financial system, . . .
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September 20, 2008 01:57 PM EDT --
A lot of accusations are flying over who is to blame for the our financial mess, but I think you can make a good case that the root of the problem lies in the long struggle to deregulate the financial . . .
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September 22, 2007 03:06 PM EDT --
The President went on the air last week to explain why he intends to veto a bill extending and expanding the ten-year-old SCHIP program intended to provide health care to children in low income families. . . .
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October 01, 2008 05:23 PM EDT --
I've been a proponent of some form of effective government action to get the credit market up and running -- not a popular position (good thing I'm not running for anything). But I'm . . .
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September 04, 2008 03:32 PM EDT --
Political conventions are supposed to be fun for the party that holds them. They energize the base. They attempt to persuade independents and members of the opposing party that they should . . .
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September 05, 2008 11:08 PM EDT --
Watching the GOP Convention last night I came away wondering if the American people would be fooled by the spectacle of enthusiastic Republicans running as much against themselves as Obama.
Let me . . .
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September 26, 2008 09:53 AM EDT --
It seems the more doctrinaire elements on the Right and Left are united in indignation over the prospect of the bailout. On the Right the objection is that the market created the problem and the . . .
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October 30, 2006 06:01 PM EST --
The following is an edited version of a longer piece that discusses the implications of the Military Commissions Act of 2006. For those of you who are ready and willing to scrap our liberties . . .
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