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Frank And Dodd Side With Mortgage Investors
The battle to stem foreclosures creates strange bedfellows. In the battle to stem foreclosures, two left-leaning policymakers have formed an unlikely alliance with mortgage investors.
Need For Campaign Cash Opens Door For Lobbyists
The invitation to a $1,500-a-plate fundraiser on June 17 for Dodd's re-election, hosted by health care lobbyists.
AG Calls For Action In Anthem Rate Hike
Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield, which has come under increasing fire for proposed rate hikes as high as 32 percent, won't get increases as large as it wanted on individual policies, according to Connecticut regulators.
CT-SEN: Primary On For Republicans
The first hints at 2Q fundraising numbers are dripping out for the three declared Republican candidates for Senate, and it looks like a four-way primary with no real favorite may be in the offing: Longtime Republican fundraiser Tom Foley has burst onto the political scene by raising more than $530,000 in the first 26 days since announcing he is ...
Grrrrrr! Attack husky returns to CT to defend Sen. Dodd
Colleen Flanagan , former press secretary for U.S Sen. Kay Hagan of North Carolina and flak for Chris Dodd, is back in Connecticut as the communications director for state Democrats.
Dodd Praised For Tobacco Legislation
HIV/AIDS Funding At Risk? Governor Signs 'Madoff' Bill HIV/AIDS Funding At Risk? by Chris Clark July 3, 2009 10:52 AM Posted to Congress U.S. Sen.
Democrats and Media Inflate 46 Million Uninsured (Including Foreigners) to 'Almost 50 Million'
Senator Christopher Dodd Democrats in Congress and media reports have been claiming that "almost" 50 million Americans lack health insurance.
Administration sends Congress consumer legislation
The Consumer Financial Protection Agency would be in charge of regulating credit cards, savings accounts and mortgages in the same way other government agencies regulate the safety of drugs, food and toys.
Obama takes on insurers over gov't plan
President Barack Obama on Tuesday squared off with the insurance lobby over industry charges that a government health plan he backs would dismantle the employer coverage Americans have relied on for a half-century and overtake the system.
The Kent Democratic Town Committee is the perhaps the first in the state to jump off the Chris Dodd bandwagon.
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Big Name Dems Come To Dodd's Aid
As President Obama today applauded a prescription drug deal he called a "major step forward" in health care reform, Sen.
Dodd Reverses Stance On Same-Sex Marriage
U.S. Sen. Christopher Dodd , who has long favored civil unions over same-sex marriage, now supports equal rights for gay and lesbian couples.
Democratic Sen. Christopher Dodd:A a oeMy goal here is to write a good bill. My goal is not bipartisanship.a I thank this scum-bucket, snaky, corrupt, oily, smelly, sanctimonious, second-generation senator from Connecticut for being straightforward.
Dems try to regain health care momentum
Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., right, accompanied by Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee ranking Republican Sen.
Baucus Takes Center Stage As Health Reform Deal Maker
"As President Obama's effort to overhaul the health care system seems to hit one roadblock after another in Congress, he is counting on Senator Max Baucus [D-Mont.], a political shape-shifter and crafty deal maker who is not fully trusted by either party, to help him clinch his top domestic priority," the New York Times reports in a profile of the ...
Citi boosting salaries to offset lower bonuses
Citigroup Inc. is increasing the base salaries of many employees - reportedly by as much as 50 percent for some workers - as it restructures their compensation amid government restrictions on bonuses.
Frank scoffs at worries about new consumer agency
House Financial Services Chairman Barney Frank scoffed Wednesday at assertions that a new consumer protection agency would morph into "some out of control entity." "There is no pattern of overregulation I can see in the consumer area, and I don't see one here," Frank, D-Mass., said at a hearing on the Obama administration's proposals to overhaul ...
As reform stalls, Senators scramble to scale back or cut costs
"The high cost of securing health insurance for all Americans, the top domestic priority of President Obama, has Congressional Democrats scrambling to scale back their proposals or find ways to trim tens of billions of dollars a year from existing health programs," the New York Times reports.
Obama signs tobacco regulation bill
In remarks [transcript] delivered before signing, Obama stressed the importance of the new legislation, which was passed in response to the 8 million tobacco-related illnesses in the US and the 400,000 deaths per year arising out of tobacco use.