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Sun. October 12, 2008

US governmental issues:
McCain supported, and Obama opposed, the 2006 Military Commissions Act that denied inmates at Guantanamo the right to challenge their confinement in a US ...

Instead of consulting with Congress, President Bush unilaterally fashioned a bare-bones judicial system to try detainees for war crimes even as the ...

While the candidates' stances on Afghanistan have varied in the past, Obama and McCain now agree more troops are needed there - where US and coalition ...

He has spoken against some provisions of the USA Patriot Act, but also has voted in support of the law. April Durrant is a proud military wife. ...

While the candidates' stances on Afghanistan have varied in the past, Obama and McCain now agree more troops are needed there - where US and coalition ...

He has spoken against some provisions of the USA Patriot Act, but has also voted in support of the law. their votes this election are the wars in Iraq and ...

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In recent weeks, the US Federal Reserve's balance sheet has expanded massively. Since 11 September, Fed credit has skyrocketed from $888.2 billion to $1.388 ...
But the federal government didn't crack down on employers after a 1986 law made it illegal to hire undocumented workers, and Chiswick doubts the next ...
The party also asked the AGF not to misadvise the Federal Government over the issue. Reacting to a comment credited to the minister's Chief Press Secretary, ...

Minnesota is one of six states where the federal government mandated compliance with Public law 280 on all reservations except Red Lake. ...
The British government too has announced a massive package while many central banks have decided to cut interest ra tes along with the US Federal Reserve. ...
You have repeatedly said that Senator Obama's health care plan would turn health care over to the federal government. At the first presidential debate you ...
The Treasury Department's surprising turnaround on the issue of buying stock in banks, which has now become its primary focus, has raised questions about ...
The central bank this week brought forward an interest rate meeting to Oct. 15 after the US Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank and four other banks ...
If private shareholders were to shun a rights issue, as happened then, the government could end up owning a direct equity stake in a bank, in addition to ...
If the opposition to the summit was a storm, the opposition to the head of the committee as proposed by the Federal Government was a hurricane. ...
The US government first decided to insure most money fund deposits. The Federal Reserve said last week that it would begin buying commercial paper from ...
At the same time, the Houston lawmaker does not support a move to require the federal government to reimburse the states for the cost of educating the ...
The government reinstated mandatory military service in 1948, in the early years of the Cold War. It became a hugely controversial issue when the US ...
US government-controlled insurer American International Group (nyse: AIG - news - people ) which on Wednesday was given a $37.8 billion credit line on top ...
The federal government has committed $130 million over ten years to help the MHCC fulfill its mandate. All parties should confirm this commitment. ...
The federal government must do more to promote that type of research and commercialization, Levin said. He noted recently approved provisions to extend tax ...
As recently as September 23, senior US officials had publicly derided proposals by Democrats to have the government take ownership stakes in banks. ...
The only source of finance for US banks is effectively the US Federal Reserve. In addition to the infusions of liquidity over the past year, the Federal ...
But there is a major difference: in 1929, the US government did not have the power to spend because laws restricted them from overspending, ...
He said US officials were "working around the clock" to develop the program. In recent weeks, the Treasury and Federal Reserve have taken unprecedented ...
Some say the credit freeze among big banks is more of an issue than the stock market because businesses can't finance capital projects, and local bankers ...
This is what happens when you substitute the market for government regulation. The Wall Street Journal reported that the Federal Deposit Insurance ...
Dale had a taste of things to come when two Australian Federal Police agents called his Melbourne home and told him and wife Elke there were bigger issues ...
By JULIAN BELTRAME, THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA -- The federal government is buying up $25 billion in residential mortgages to give Canada's chartered banks ...
This is a credibility issue, this is a question of sincerity and in all of them, the Federal Government has been found wanting. ...
The federal government has committed $130 million over ten years to help the MHCC fulfill its mandate. All parties should confirm this commitment. ...
Another approach under consideration is to issue federal guarantees on the debt banks sell to investors. Compiled from reports by the Washington Post and ...
The largest Conglomerates dominate many areas of trading, underwriting and investment management, and it is increasingly clear that the federal government ...
Eva Weber, an Aite Group analyst and attorney who focuses on bank regulatory and compliance issues, concurred. She said the government will perform its due ...
When Ben Bernanke, the chairman of the US Federal Reserve, makes a speech, Wall Street hangs on every word. In a time of exceptional uncertainty, ...
By Ross Greenwood THE head of the US Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke, has an unusual nickname. They call him "Helicopter Ben". ...
"In the spirit of the Magna Carta where the King and government are required to follow their own laws; and in the honorable tradition of the Judicial Branch ...
TREASURIES: Securities sold by the federal government to investors to fund its operations, cover the interest on US government debt and pay off maturing ...
Monetary policy as practiced by the US Federal Reserve for the past decade is but a form of financial Stalinism, forcing ridiculously low or negative real ...
... government efforts to resuscitate an ailing credit market, Federal Reserve data released on Friday showed. Many US companies issue commercial paper to ...
And that is precisely what Turnbull is doing by grandstanding about a five-fold increase in the proposed government savings deposit guarantee scheme, aimed, ...
The government had sought $280 million in disgorgement to prevent future fraud, but that was later denied. In October 2006 a Washington -based federal ...
In a functioning democratic society, a political campaign would address such fundamental issues, looking into root causes and cures, and proposing the means ...
Citigroup, which mounted a whirlwind legal battle after Wachovia spurned its $2.2 billion government-brokered deal last week for a surprise, superior offer ...

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