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In a CNBC classic, economic advisors Austan Goolsbee and Douglas Holtz-Eakin discuss whether or not their candidates eat, and how much they pay.
Washington House members maintain 'no' votes on bailout bill
In the end, none of them flipped. The four Washington state House members who voted against the $700 billion Wall Street bailout Monday voted against it again Friday.
Microsoft urges Congressional bailout
Today Microsoft sent an e-mail to members of Washington state's congressional delegation urging them to reconsider legislation restoring stability to the U.S. economy.
Stopgap spending bill contains funds for Washington
Even as Congress and the White House struggled to deal with the nation's mounting financial crisis, President Bush quietly signed a stopgap spending bill last week that provides hundreds of millions of dollars ...
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Battelle receives contract extension from DOE
Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Oct. 4--The Department of Energy is giving Battelle Memorial Institute a four-year extension on the management and operations contract for the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.
Most Dems in Wash. delegation back bill
Washington's congressional delegation voted mostly along party lines Monday on a doomed $700 billion financial-bailout package.
New bailout bill gains goodies in hope of changing minds
Bit by bit, lawmaker by lawmaker, forces in favor of the massive financial rescue plan rejected just days ago are turning around the tide of opinion in Congress.
Yes -- Mike Simpson , Barbara Cubin No -- Bill Sali , Cathy McMorris-Rodgers , Doc Hastings , Dennis Rehberg The House of Representatives gave final approval on Friday to the $700 billion bailout for the ...
Bailout bill includes timber payments
WASHINGTON - The financial rescue plan approved by Congress extends a program that pays rural counties hurt by federal logging cutbacks.
Pressure mounts on lawmakers to switch bailout votes
Just days after they voted against the $700 billion Wall Street bailout, four Washington state lawmakers faced mounting pressure Thursday to change their minds as the House prepared to take up the rescue ...
GOP leaders wrangle bailout vote
House Republican leaders struggled Thursday to persuade some of their members to reverse course and support the $700 billion economic bailout package, but leaders in both parties said they were guardedly ...
Northwest Progressive Institute
U.S. House rejects bailout plan in bipartisan vote, Clerk's website inaccessible
The United States House has just voted to reject the Bush administration's bailout compromise plan , supported by Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, the Democratic leadership, and the Republican leadership: In a ...
NW lawmakers who voted no under pressure to switch
They range from a liberal Democrat in Portland and Seattle to a conservative Republican from Idaho.
Sweeteners help lawmakers back bill
Bit by bit, lawmaker by lawmaker, forces in favor of the massive financial rescue plan rejected just days ago are turning around the tide of opinion in Congress.
Public Campaign raises Keating
And since today's theme seems to be indiscriminately posting third-party ads that probably won't air widely enough to matter much, here's another .
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Sweeteners entice lawmakers back to bailout plan
Bit by bit, lawmaker by lawmaker, forces in favor of the massive financial rescue plan rejected just days ago are turning around the tide of opinion in Congress.
Is Rossi-Gregoire rematch an east-west fight?
Plastered on dozens of billboards across Eastern Washington, the phrase implores rural voters: "Don't Let Seattle Steal This Election." The sentiment recalls the bitterly contested gubernatorial race between ...
Only in D.C.: Facebook statuses and the White House
This is pretty funny. AFP reporter Olivier Knox gots called out for his Facebook update at the WH, of all places, which has now led to several concerned staffers and citizens to question, "is Facebook on the ...
Why Hastings voted against bailout
U.S. Rep. Doc Hastings voted with the majority Monday to defeat the $700 billion bailout of Wall Street and the financial system, saying the latest legislation was only "marginally better" than the plan put out ...
How state's House members voted
How Washington's U.S. House members voted on the $700 billion financial rescue package defeated Monday: No: Dave Reichert.