Jeffrey Birnbaum, writing in the Washington Post, reports lobbyists wrote key portions of the mortgage bailout bill:
Credit Suisse, a large investment bank heavily invested in mortgage-backed securities, proposed allowing hundreds of thousands of homeowners to refinance their mortgages with lower-cost government-insured loans, relieving financial institutions of the troubled debt.
After the bank proposed this to Congress […]
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Birnbaum: Bank of America lobbyists wrote parts of bank bail out bill
June 26th, 2008 · 2 Comments
Tags: Campaign Finance · Countrywide Scandal · General Real Time · Lobbying · Media · Uncategorized
McCain & Lobbyists
December 31st, 2007 · No Comments
The Washington Post’s Jeffrey H. Birnbaum and John Solomon report on Sen. John McCain’s ties to lobbyists–especially the 32 lobbyists who are designated fundraisers (the preferred term is bundlers, but there are more colorful terms available to us) for his campaign.
The story does a good job of identifying who these lobbyists are and what interests […]
Tags: Campaign Finance · General Real Time · Media
