1. We, the Leaders of the Group of Twenty, held an initial meeting in Washington on November 15, 2008, amid serious challenges to the world economy and financial markets. We are determined to enhance our cooperation and work together to restore global growth and achieve needed reforms in the world’s financial systems.
AP - A grand jury is investigating whether Pennsylvania House Republican leaders illegally used a taxpayer-funded database as a campaign tool to better focus their messages to voters.
AP - Technically, lawmakers are returning to Washington for a final meeting of the old, lame-duck 110th Congress. In reality, the confab on Capitol Hill is nearly all about next year.
AP - Prospects dimmed on Monday for the $25 billion bailout that U.S. automakers say they desperately need to get through a bleak and dangerous December.
Bloomberg - Nov. 14 (Bloomberg) — When House Democrats return to
Washington next week, they will have to choose between an Old
Bull and a Young Turk.
AP - Hardline opponents of an auto industry bailout branded the industry a “dinosaur” whose “day of reckoning” is near, while Democrats pledged Sunday to do their best to get Detroit a slice of the $700 billion Wall Street rescue in this week’s lame-duck session of Congress.
I congratulate the many people of the Klamath River Basin in Oregon and California who recently put forward a shared vision for conservation of the river. The agreement my Administration announced today with Oregon, California, and PacifiCorp, the company that owns four hydropower dams on the Klamath River, will advance that vision. Federal, State, and […]
CQPolitics.com - Purchasing troubled assets from banks and other financial institutions “is not the most effective way to use” funds under the Treasury Department’s financial industry bailout, Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr. said Wednesday, even though lawmakers passed the bailout thinking that it would focus on asset purchases.
CHICAGO- Call it the e-fireside chat.
U.S. President-elect Barack Obama plans to continue his close links with the Internet by making the weekly radio address into a YouTube video that he will post on his Web site www.change.gov, aides said on Friday.
Obama, who takes office on Jan. 20, will record this Saturday’s Democratic weekly radio address […]
Stark differences between the incoming and outgoing vice presidents may present challenges in Thursday night’s meeting.
