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For quite a few years I have been referring to the American citizens as "Sheeple" for blindly following their "leaders" to the slaughter while thinking they were going to the sheepfold.

Sen. Judd Gregg speaks during a Senate Budget Committee conference meeting, as Chairman Kent Conrad and Rep.

State Rep. Betty Brown has filed for re-election to serve Henderson and Kaufman Counties in the Texas House of Representatives.

As Citigroup began selling new stock to repay $20 billion in borrowed TARP money, the White House acknowledged Wednesday the bank was being let of the hook for billions in taxes.

I didn't get to comment on this story yet, but wanted to make sure everyone was made aware of it.

Democrats and Republicans in the U.S. Congress engaged in procedural battles and traded allegations on Wednesday as lawmakers attempted to conclude work on legislative priorities near the end of the congressional session.

It all makes for great political theater. President Obama goes on "60 Minutes" to declare, "I did not run for office to be helping out a bunch of fat cat bankers on Wall Street." The financial titans become predictably indignant.

As Democrats in Congress are working to reform the financial regulatory system, Republicans are doing their best to protect their fat-cat lobbyists and special-interests [ Roll Call , 12/8/2009]: In a call to arms, House Republican leaders met with more than a 100 lobbyists at the Capitol Visitors Center on Tuesday afternoon to try to fight back ...

House Democrats have cleared the way for the Obama administration to spend the leftover government bailout funds.

A sharply divided House yesterday passed the most dramatic overhaul of US financial regulations since the Great Depression, voting to establish a new borrower protection agency and give the government sweeping new powers to crack down on the types of Wall Street practices that caused last year's economic meltdown.

As the House was expected to begin debating a massive regulatory reform bill Wednesday, Republicans offered a host of reasons to oppose the legislation while moderate Democrats endorsed amendments to weaken its impact.

The U.S House of representatives voted Friday to approve a bill that will bring broad reform to financial markets .

The House is poised to pass legislation aimed at preventing the next big financial crisis and usher in the most sweeping set of changes to the banking regulatory system since the New Deal.

Close See a sample reprint in PDF format. Order a reprint of this article now By JONATHAN WEISMAN President Barack Obama pressed forward with an expansion of his $787 billion stimulus plan Tuesday, unveiling job-creation proposals that largely build on the initial package, including a hiring tax credit that his own party jettisoned as unworkable ...

More than a year after the near-collapse of Wall Street plunged the economy into crisis, a divided House on Friday approved the most sweeping overhaul of the nation's financial regulatory system since the Great Depression.

The Obama administration has extended the $700 billion financial bailout program until October, setting up a struggle between Democrats who favor using some of the leftover money to help generate jobs and Republicans who say it should be used to shrink soaring budget deficits.

Sen. Judd Gregg says unused TARP funds need to be used to pay down the federal debt.

WASHINGTON A bipartisan coalition in the House voted late Thursday to make it easier for corporations to engage in complex derivatives trades without government restrictions, eroding the reach of proposed regulations to govern Wall Street .

Dec. 10 -- U.S. Representative Jeb Hensarling, a Texas Republican, talks with Bloomberg's Lori Rothman and Peter Cook about Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner's extension of the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program.

Forty-four lawmakers sign onto Christmas resolution, despite Boehner's tirade against frivolous bills.