28 January 2009
If this was to the be dawn of a new era of bipartisanship, it didn’t look like it today. President Obama’s stimulus package, a modified version of the original $825 billion plan, shaved off a few billion and still did not manage to get one Republican “yes” vote in the House. The final vote was [...]
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26 January 2009
It’s official: we have a new Secretary of the Treasury. The Senate has confirmed Timothy Geithner, President Barack Obama’s pick for Treasury Secretary. The votes for Geithner did not reflect overwhelming confidence in Obama’s pick. The final vote was 60-34 in favor of Geithner. The vote was not strictly partisan with many Republicans embracing Geithner, [...]
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