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CQPolitics.com - Leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee released Tuesday their long-awaited draft legislation to cap greenhouse gas emissions. ...

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Former chiefs of American International Group Inc. were blamed Tuesday for the insurer's financial crisis by a House committee chairman, while the ex-CEOs themselves cited accounting rules for the problems that led to the federal government's $85 billion bailout. ...

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As Lehman pleaded for a bailout, it approved millions for its executives, a Congressional committee was told. ...

Source: www.usatoday.com --- 31 days ago
Lawmakers on Tuesday castigated Veterans Administration health officials for ordering the destruction of biomedical specimens ... ...

Source: www.nypost.com --- 30 days ago
House Republican leaders demanded today that embattled Rep. Charles Rangel be removed from his post as chairman of a tax-writing committee while an ethics Panel reviews his personal finances. Rangel, D-N.Y., has been besieged for months by... ...

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Auditors were kept from knowing the level of the firm's risk, documents presented at a hearing show. Executives at American International Group Inc. hid the full range of its risky financial products from auditors as losses mounted, according to documents released Tuesday by a congressional Panel examining the chain of events that forced the government to bail out the conglomerate. ...

Source: www.chron.com --- 6 days ago
AUSTIN — Texas House Speaker Tom Craddick appointed a special committee Friday to review state and local government response to Hurricane Ike. "Having seen the damage of Hurricane Ike firsthand, I was awed by the size and scope of this disaster," said Craddick, a Midland Republican who visited some of the damaged areas after the storm hit on Sept. 13. ...

Source: MiamiHerald.com --- 23 days ago
A House Panel has moved toward impeaching a federal judge - the first such action taken in more than two decades. ...

Source: www.examiner.com --- 30 days ago
Lawmakers on Tuesday castigated Veterans Administration health officials for ordering the destruction of biomedical specimens on Legionnaires' disease and other infectious diseases that two prominent researchers had collected over a quarter-century. ...

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Texas House Speaker Tom Craddick appointed a special committee Friday to review state and local government response to Hurricane Ike. ...

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With the $700 billion-dollar financial industry bailout bill now signed into law, the House is looking into what drove Lehman Brothers into bankruptcy. ...

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From CongressDaily 's AM Edition: Members of the House will be permitted to use third-party Web sites like YouTube to communicate with constituents as long as the content is for official purposes, and not personal, commercial or campaign communication, according to rules adopted Thursday by the House Administration Committee. The rules are seen by House Administration Chairman Robert Brady as a compromise between several proposals under consideration in recent months and are closely aligned with those circulated by the Senate Rules Committee last week. One plan by Rep. Michael Capuano , D-Mass., who chairs the commission charged with drafting the language for the Administration Committee, was slammed by Minority Leader John Boehner in July as "an attack on free speech." House Administration ranking member Vernon Ehlers and Reps. Kevin McCarthy , R-Calif., and Tom Price , R-Ga., drafted alternate language, which formed the basis for the changes that won committee approval. Ehlers said Brady "demonstrated outstanding leadership." Read the full story here . * * * Sunlight Foundation program director John Wonderlich said the changes should "drastically improve members' ability to connect with their constituents online." "In the arms race of online political communications, Members and staffers have had one arm tied behind their backs, until now," he said. GOP strategist David All said the move is a welcome step toward more transparenc ...

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WASHINGTON – Less than a week after the federal government had to bail out American International Group Inc., the company sent executives on a $440,000 retreat to a posh California resort, lawmakers investigating the company’s meltdown said Tuesday. ...

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Lehman Bros. CEO Richard Fuld on Monday blamed the company's collapse last month on short sellers that drove down the company's stock, credit agency downgrades and his own flawed but well-meaning decisions as the subprime mortgage decimated Wall Street. ...

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Lehman Brothers CEO Richard Fuld makes his first appearance on the public stage today since his company declared bankruptcy on Sept. 10. ...

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A House Energy and Commerce Committee Panel is readying a report expected to question whether Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin J. Martin went too far in keeping FCC decisions and policymaking to a close-knit group of subordinates. A committee official today confirmed that a report on a 10-month-long probe of Mr. Martin’s management style would likely be issued later this month, replacing what was originally planned to be a committee hearing on Mr. Martin’s management. Since last December, the committee’s Oversight and Investigations Panel headed by Rep. Bart Stupak, D-Mich., has been examining Mr. Martin’s management in the wake of complaints, some made publicly by the cable industry and by other commissioners. Most of the public complaints were that Mr. Martin kept a tight rein on data essential to decisions — including one to expand the FCC’s oversight of cable — until the last minute, making it difficult for other commissioners and the cable industry to weigh in or rebut. In several letters to Mr. Martin, the Panel has stated that it has also heard private complaints from FCC staffers that Mr. Martin has made it difficult to do their jobs. There also have been complaints that the FCC doesn’t follow basic processes of open government, disclosing few details about items commissioners vote on before the vote is over, essentially preventing public input. FCC commissioners commonly votes on issues without detailing ...

Source: totalbuzz.freedomblogging.com --- 2 days ago
The House may be on a recess to go home and campaign but Los Angeles Democrat and chairman of the Oversight and Government Reform committee Henry Waxman is holding a hearing right now on the the federal bailout of AIG. Among other things, the members of Congress are outraged about something you all heard from Teri [...] ...

Source: www.crainsnewyork.com --- 29 days ago
Rep. Charles Rangel took the blame for failing to pay rental income taxes on his villa in the Dominican Republic, but said he shouldn't have to cede his position in Congress. ...

Source: www.dailystar.com.lb --- 32 days ago
Parliament's Administration and Justice Committee approved the right of Lebanese expatriates to vote in the 209 parliamentary election during a meeting on Monday. "All Lebanese citizens residing outside Lebanon can vote," the Panel said, "on the one condition that they register at the respective Lebanese embassies." ...