Senate Clears $182 billion Spending Bill - Politico “The overall picture, the entire pie is about $10 billion more,” he said. “Unless we can be open and transparent with the American people and acknowledge the fact that we are spending more I think this is a problem.” “We have to get the fiscal house in order and [...]
Via Politico: The Obama administration’s efforts to fix the housing crisis may have fallen well short of helping millions of distressed mortgage holders, but they have led to seven-figure paydays for some top executives at troubled mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The Federal Housing Finance Agency, the government regulator for Fannie and Freddie, [...]
This morning, the Senate held votes on several amendments to a FY 2012 Appropriations bill for "Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies programs." One of the amendments that failed 38-60 was an amendment by Senator Paul that would have appropriated $700 million for high priority infrastructure repairs by using money previously [...]
