11/12/2009 Veterans Day Tributes to Fort Hood Soldiers
This Veterans Day, hundreds of people lined the downtown streets of Dallas and Fort Worth today - waving flags and cheering. KERA's BJ Austin reports.
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11/6/2009 Conservatives step up fiery rhetoric at health care rally at Capitol in Washington
Houston Republican Rep. John Culberson throws the health care bill to the crowd on Capitol Hill in Washington during a massive protest against the government's overhaul effort. Lawmakers said the plan was a step toward socialism. With self-styled patriots and cranky conservatives flexing their muscles at town hall meetings this summer, only a handful of House Republicans dared miss the raucous midday rally. All but one or two of the 20 Texas Republicans were spotted on the Capitol steps. Many got a turn whipping up the crowd, not that it took much effort.
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11/5/2009 House Panel Debates Systemic-Risk Measure
House lawmakers continue to spar over how much authority the government should have to regulate and wind down the largest financial firms, with little bipartisan consensus evident during debate....More
11/5/2009 Gov't risked taxpayer trillions to save banks, and the subsidies continue, watchdog says
Government officials put trillions of taxpayer dollars on the line to guarantee risky bank assets — a strategy that could cause permanent and costly market distortions, a government watchdog says.
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11/4/2009 Heavy Reading: Hensarling makes 1,990-page health care bill available
A copy of the health care bill now awaiting a vote in the House of Representatives has been made available locally.
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11/4/2009 Mammoth bill delivered to Jacksonville
U.S. Rep. Jeb Hensarling, R-Athens, sent a copy of the 1,990-page healthcare bill (H.R. 3962) to the Jacksonville Public Library.
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10/30/2009 Opposing view: End taxpayer-funded bailouts
As any good doctor will tell you, if you get the diagnosis wrong, you get the remedy wrong. The proposal from the Obama administration and Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank to deal with systemic risk in our economy certainly confirms the wisdom of that statement....More
10/29/2009 Strengthening the budget
As Americans watch their paychecks stagnate, their jobs disappear and their savings shrink, they also see Washington pursuing a relentless expansion of spending, deficits and debt - a pattern that must be reversed to head off a potential fiscal and economic crisis. ...More
10/29/2009 Obama 'too big to fail' plan blasted in Congress
* Treasury Secretary Geithner defends proposal in hearing...More
10/27/2009 Rolling up the TARP
The Troubled Asset Relief Program will expire on December 31, unless Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner exercises his authority to extend it to next October. We hope he doesn't. Historians will debate TARP's role in ending the financial panic of 2008, but today there is little evidence that the government needs or can prudently manage what has evolved into a $700 billion all-purpose political bailout fund. ...More