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		<title><![CDATA[The End of SarbOx? The Supreme Court Weighs In.]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The business reform law that nearly every company loves to hate  faces its biggest challenge yet. It's up to the Supreme Court to  decide if Sarbanes-Oxley is even constitutional.   The case in brief:   After scandals at Enron and WorldCom, Congress responded  with SarbOx,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Geoengineering Gets a Hearing in Congress -- and in the U.K., Too]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Geoengineering -- the concept of deliberately manipulating the earth's climate system to counteract climate change -- made its debut in Congress this week, which I suppose makes it officially "mainstream."    The House's Committee on Science and Technology held a hearing on geoengineering -- the first serious congressional...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:28:11 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Move-Up Homebuyers Getting in on Tax-Credit Incentives]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://moneywatch.bnet.com/retirement-planning/blog/real-time-money/first-time-homebuyers-getting-in-on-tax-credit-incentives/151/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Rather than letting the $8,000 federal tax-credit for first-time homebuyer credit lapse, Congress appears headed to reauthorizing the incentive through April 30 and expanding it to "move-up" buyers with a $6,500 credit on home purchases up to $800,000, based on a Senate vote last night.    If you're...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:05:47 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Should Congress Extend the Tax Credit for Home Buyers?]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Congress is currently debating two bills that would extend the life of the $8,000 tax credit for first-time home buyers, which expires December 1. Is this a good idea? The answer recalls the joke about putting two economists in a room with a problem and getting three answers.  ...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 09:24:43 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Bernanke to Housing Market: Please Don't Drop Dead]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I pointed out in a post a week ago, Â getting Uncle Sam out of real estate is shaping up to be tougher than anyone would like. The Federal Reserve's statements since I blogged-including this speech Friday from Fed governor Ken Warsh-bear me out.Â  And on top of that comes...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 08:01:21 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Congress to Speed New Credit Rules to Stop Bad Bank Behavior]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bankers groups are crying foul as legislators moved today to speed up implementation of credit card reform, in the wake of a flood of consumer complaints about hiked interest rates and slashed credit limits. by Kathy Kristof]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 13:37:49 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[FHA Is Broke. Now What?]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[This morning, the Washington Post reported that the Federal Housing Administration has been hit so hard by mortgage delinquencies and foreclosures, that the FHA would officially drop below the cash reserve level required by Congress.    The problem is two-fold: Congress requiresÂ FHA to keep 2 percent of all...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 12:27:33 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Congress Moves To Shore Up Social Security And Increase Deficit]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://industry.bnet.com/government/10003221/congress-moves-to-shore-up-social-security-and-increase-deficit/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Due to low inflation there are no COLA's planned for Social Security the next two years.  Congress thinks this needs to be fixed with added borrowing and increases in the deficit. by Matthew Potter]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 02:59:56 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Congress Upset That Earmarks Are Taxed By Federal Recipients]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[It came to the attention of Congress due to a whining contractor that many Federal Departments hold back some of the earmarked money they get in order to administer the funds.  These "taxes" of money are not new as most higher headquarters hold portions of all the funds they...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 02:50:42 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Dealers Protest Chrysler Closings, But Can Congress Help?]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some dealers terminated by Chrysler are fighting to be reinstated. Failing that, at least they want an accounting for how, exactly, did Chrysler decide which dealerships to get rid of? by Jim Henry]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 09:58:04 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Worrying About 2011's Defense Budget]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The way the Federal budget process works is that the current year budget is being executed after being passed by Congress on or about October 1st of the previous year.  The next year's budget is on Capitol Hill to be reviewed and voted on by Congress, and the budget...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 02:49:56 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[How Wikileaks Can Factor into a New Business Model]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://industry.bnet.com/media/1000935/how-wikileaks-can-factor-into-a-new-business-model/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week, Wikileaks scored a journalistic coup by releasing what it characterizes as "nearly a billion dollars worth of quasi-secret reports commissioned by the United States Congress. The documents cache consists of 6,780 reports by the Congressional Research Service CRS, which is sometimes referred to as "Congress's Brain." This represents...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2009 16:30:02 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Latest Selected Acquisition Reports (SAR) Released to Congress]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://industry.bnet.com/government/1000133/latest-selected-acquisition-reports-sar-released-to-congress/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[By Law the Department of Defense must submit to Congress annual reports on the major acquisition programs.  The report chosen is called the Selected Acquisition Report SAR.  These are normally submitted when the President sends the full budget to the Hill.  SAR reports are also submitted quarterly...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 16:09:31 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Memo to Congress: Please Stop Obsessing Over Bank Execs' Bonuses]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tom Brown submits:  The nine big banks that got the first slug of capital from the federal government are reassuring members of Congress notably Henry Waxman and Charles Schumer that, no, the money won&#8217;t fund executives&#8217; yearend bonuses. Rather, bonuses will be paid for via &#8220;earnings and existing cash...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Blame Game: Congress, Wall Street, Home Buyers and Big Business Top Americans List for Economic and Financial Crisis]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Obama seen as better able to handle economic issue than McCain  ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- When it comes to the causes of the financial and economic crisis, Americans spread the blame around to both private and public sectors. Majorities blame all of the following "a lot": banks (76%), homebuyers who...]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[By James Carlson   THE CAPITAL-JOURNAL   Kansas Treasurer Lynn Jenkins is ready to step to the national stage in the U.S. House of Representatives after rising through the state Republican ranks, from the Kansas House to the Kansas Senate before becoming the state treasurer in 2002. ...]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[Training works   I appreciate the letter by Frank Brentine on Sept. 30 about Crisis Intervention Team training. I am a member of the Topeka/ Shawnee County CIT Council, which has offered 40 hours of training twice to law enforcement and corrections officers.   CIT is a community-based,...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[CCAGW PAC Endorses Tom Rooney for Florida's 16th District]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- The Council for Citizens Against Government Waste Political Action Committee CCAGW PAC today announced its endorsement of Tom Rooney for Congress in Florida's 16th Congressional District. Mr. Rooney is running against incumbent Rep. Tim Mahoney.  "Tom Rooney is a fiscal conservative who believes in less government and...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[CCAGW PAC Endorses Andy Harris for Maryland's 1st District]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- The Council for Citizens Against Government Waste Political Action Committee CCAGW PAC today announced its endorsement of State Senator Andy Harris for Congress in Maryland's First Congressional District. Sen. Harris is running against Frank M. Kratovil, Jr.  "Sen. Harris is a true fiscal conservative who has pledged...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Commentary: A depression by any other name would still stink]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Federal Reserve officials have been tap dancing around the R- word for the past year, unwilling to concede that the economy has slipped into that enigmatic condition known as "negative growth."   Part of their reluctance is politics. The reigning party hates to hobble its man with bad economic...]]></description>
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