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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[How to make 1.7 million new clean energy jobs permanent]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Brad Johnson   The challenges facing President Obama and the U.S. Congress have not gone away. Paul Krugman worries that " unemployment is likely  to stay near its current level for a year or more," because "much of the political establishment now sees stimulus as having been...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:59:57 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[@ World Newspaper Congress: Dow Jones CEO: Beware of Geeks Bearing Gifts]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ At the World Newspaper Congress here in Hyderabad this afternoon, Dow Jones (NYSE: NWS) CEO Les Hinton came out swinging against the world in general, as is the wont of every News Corp exec these days. More specifically, against &#8220;geeks bearing gifts&#8221;, &#8220;false gospel of the Web&#8221; and &#8220;out...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 11:38:44 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[@ World Newspaper Congress: Someone Please Save a Newspaper Instead?]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ I arrived in a muggy but cool Hyderabad, India this evening, for the World Newspaper Congress, organized by the newly merged WAN & IFRA orgs, now grandly called  World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers. The venue and the conference seems to be chaotic this first night, not...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:13:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Financial Reforms Grind Forward in Congress]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Kevin DrawbaughWASHINGTON (<a href="http://resources.bnet.com/index.php?source=Reuters">Reuters</a>) - The U.S. Congress edged closer on Wednesday to creating new government powers to break up giant financial firms, which Europe is already doing, while a U.S. derivatives market crackdown got more complicated.More than a year since the collapse of Lehman Brothers and massive government bailouts...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 03:15:17 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Heroic Loser Conservative To Become Upstate New York's Norm Coleman [Campaigns]]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[       Fantastic news, New Yorkers:  Doug Hoffman , the Conservative Party candidate who won the endorsement of  real  Republicans and then lost the race for Congress because he did not live in the district or know much about it?  He...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 10:10:09 -0800</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Kevin DrawbaughWASHINGTON (<a href="http://resources.bnet.com/index.php?source=Reuters">Reuters</a>) - Some of the world's largest financial firms on Monday urged a top U.S. lawmaker not to pursue big bank break-up legislation, an idea attracting interest in Congress and causing alarm on Wall Street.The Financial Services Forum, a lobbying group for CEOs of firms including Goldman...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[What Genentech and Roche Got From Congress for $15M]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Genentech and its parent, Roche (RHHBY.PK), paid lobbyists nearly $15 million in 2008 and 2009 as they urged Congressmen to support the biotech industry's interests in the healthcare bill and other legislation. The result, chronicled in the New York Times, is that 42 members of the U.S. House of Representatives...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Apple bans bobble head Congress app]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apple has banned an app from the App Store that depicts our members of congress as bobble head caricatures. Not because the app put them in compromising positions or contained foul language, violence (or god help us, nudity) but because it "ridicules" them. Really? In a letter to the developer...]]></description>
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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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		<title><![CDATA[Move-Up Homebuyers Getting in on Tax-Credit Incentives]]></title>
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		<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[Obama "too Big to Fail" Plan Blasted in Congress]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Kevin Drawbaugh WASHINGTON (<a href="http://resources.bnet.com/index.php?source=Reuters">Reuters</a>) - The Obama administration's new proposal for tackling financial risk in the U.S. economy, unveiled just two days ago, came under attack on Thursday from Congress and regulators, with questions raised about its funding and scope. U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner scrambled in a congressional...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Long-Term Care Proposal Finally Gets Legs in Congress]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Long-term care is a huge problem not addressed by current health reform legislation. But Congress is started to get interested in a long-term-care bill because it would save money in the short term. by Ken Terry]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Dimon defends dollar -- and JPMorgan]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK Fortune -- JPMorgan Chase chief executive officer defended the dollar -- and the size of his company -- at a securities industry conference Tuesday. "The ultimate strength of the dollar will depend on the strength of the United States," Dimon said. Dimon discussed the dollar and other key...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:10:29 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Here Is What Is Going On With Health Care [Congress]]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Everyone is acting like the  Health Care  negotiations have become crazy and impossible to figure out but that is a  lie.  Where we are at right now is quite simple.   There will most likely be a public option in the Senate bill. ...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Energy report: 'Unfinished Business']]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://industry.bnet.com/energy/news-analysis/energy-report-unfinished-business/17298/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON, Oct. 23 UPI -- Business Roundtable, an association of chief executive officers of major U.S. companies, in a report released Wednesday urged Congress and the Obama administration to support renewable and traditional sources of energy as the country transitions to a low-carbon economy. "Unfinished Business: The Missing Elements of...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:54:45 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Public Knowledge Statement on 'Blue Bell' House Democrats Letter Criticizing Net Neutrality]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[For Immediate Release:  October 16, 2009  The following statement is attributed to Gigi B. Sohn, president and co-founder of Public Knowledge:   "It's a pity that 72 members of the Blue Dog Caucus and the Congressional Black Caucus are deserting one of the fundamental planks of President Obama's...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Congress, Obama set boundaries for contractors]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Acquisition Watch The defense authorization's conference report outlines Congress' view of procurement policy No one in Congress or the Obama administration is beating the drum for a new generation of acquisition reform, but a reform of sorts is under way nonetheless, and it might not be to the liking of...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[OTC Derivatives Rules Backed By Congress Panel]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Kevin Drawbaugh and Charles Abbott WASHINGTON (<a href="http://resources.bnet.com/index.php?source=Reuters">Reuters</a>) - A key U.S. congressional committee approved new rules for the largely unpoliced $450-trillion derivatives market on Thursday in a win for the Obama administration. The House of Representatives Financial Services Committee voted 43-26, largely on party lines, in favor of the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 10:35:55 -0700</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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