March 24, 2009
Congress gets very upset when TARP bailout money goes to corporate employee bonuses, corporate jet rides, and corporate golf tournaments.
What Congress doesn't get so very upset about is when TARP bailout money goes to Congress, in the form of campaign contributions.
In recent filings with the Federal Election Commission, the political action committee for Bank [...]
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February 16, 2009
Campaign promise:
"sunlight is the best disinfectant…and when there's a bill that ends up on my desk as President, you, the public, will have five days to look online and find out what's in it, before I sign it." – Barack Obama
Reality:
The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act – wasn't put online.
The SCHIP expansion – [...]
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