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a time when other institutions were negotiating deep discounts for the paper. The names of the banks were also omitted from the SEC filing. The information was finally disclosed in March 2009 after the SEC challenged AIGs filing, prompting lawmakers and analysts to call the transactions a backdoor bailout of the banks. Topping the list of banks which benefited from the backdoor bailout of their toxic paper were Goldman Sachs and Societe Generale SA. AIG New York The e-mails, released ...

Author: RevolutionNewz; Tags: Fed Reserve cover up

Connecticut is one of a few states in the country that does not have a secure sex offender treatment facility. But are the lawmakers playing politics with the public's safety?

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President Obama took responsibility for the systemic failures that allowed a terror suspect to board a plane with an explosive, saying in a statement "the buck stops with me." Jim Lehrer talks to counter-terrorism experts and lawmakers for reaction.

Author: PBSNewsHour; Tags: Intelligence terrorism President Obama PBS NewsHour Jim Lehrer

Erie County lawmakers have agreed to changes that will shift power in the legislature. Some legislators are crying foul over the move.

Author: WIVBTV; Tags: Legislators cry foul over power shift

Gov. Jim Douglas is urging Vermont lawmakers to roll back income, capital gains and estate tax increases passed last year.

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Lawmakers say all options are on the table as they work to close a $438 million state budget gap. News 8's Keith Baldi reports.

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If you're on the fence about buying your first home, lawmakers are giving you an extra incentive to take the plunge.

Author: WIVBTV; Tags: Lawmakers give incentive to buy home

President Barack Obama's approval ratings are on the decline, 45% of registered Democrats say they won't vote in midterm 2010 elections, and two veteran Democratic lawmakers announced they're retiring. Now critics are abuzz about the Democratic party losing steam. Has the President's promise of hope and change amounted to more of the same in Washington, disillusioning voters? And if this is hurting the Democratic party, who will win in the shakeout? ... RT "Russia Today" "Lauren Lyster" "' ...

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Join us for the WV YouTube Youth Forum on Feb. 17, 2010 at Children's Day at the Legislature! Log on to www.wvyouthforum.org and upload your video questions for lawmakers. Cash prizes are available for selected video questions. Contest deadline is Feb. 10, 2010.

Author: PCAWV; Tags: youtube youth forum wv pcawv children's day politics youth children