Angry Congress lashes out at Obama
Posted on | November 20, 2009 | 8 Comments
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November 20th, 2009 @ 5:20 pm
Every time I try to get to this site I keep getting redirected to stupid yellow pages….
November 21st, 2009 @ 10:50 am
repost. msnbc has archieved it.
besides, its agbout time those sleepy heads in congress woke up. you think?
November 22nd, 2009 @ 3:08 am
MSNBC has already killed the website, I would guess it was pulled at the request of the WH.
November 22nd, 2009 @ 8:29 am
All you have to do is to GOOGLE the words
‘Angry Congress lashes out at Obama’
And you will find other websites that show the article.
November 22nd, 2009 @ 3:22 pm
I found the article on washingtonpost.com, but had to register first:
washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/19/AR2009111903167.html
Angry Congress lashes out at Obama
ECONOMIC WOES TAKING A TOLL
House Republicans call on Geithner to resign
By Brady Dennis, Zachary A. Goldfarb and Neil Irwin
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, November 20, 2009
“Growing discontent over the economy and frustration with efforts to speed its recovery boiled over Thursday on Capitol Hill in a wave of criticism and outright anger directed at the Obama administration.”
November 22nd, 2009 @ 7:50 pm
The Salt Lake Tribune still has the article posted at:
https://www.sltrib.com/nationworld/ci_13832788
November 22nd, 2009 @ 9:04 pm
Yes, the page is gone.
I would not trust the information from the home of Teeth Overbearing, and Crass Misuse and other Funny Farmers.
Coming from the Ultra Left, the proper designation is BSNBC.
November 23rd, 2009 @ 3:11 am
[REMOVED now but not before I saved a copy–hehehe]
https://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34057664/ns/business-washington_post//
Angry Congress lashes out at Obama
House Republicans call on Geithner to resign as economic woes take a toll
White House defends Geithner
Nov. 20: The White House defended Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner after he came under fire during a hearing yesterday. CNBC’s Steve Liesman reports.
By Brady Dennis, Zachary A. Goldfarb and Neil Irwin
updated 10:13 a.m. ET, Fri., Nov . 20, 2009
Growing discontent over the economy and frustration with efforts to speed its recovery boiled over Thursday on Capitol Hill in a wave of criticism and outright anger directed at the Obama administration.
Episodes in both houses of Congress exposed the raw nerves of lawmakers flooded with stories of unemployment and economic hardship back home. They also underscored the stiff headwinds that the administration faces as it pushes to enact sweeping changes to the financial regulatory system while also trying to create jobs for ordinary Americans.
President Obama’s allies in the Congressional Black Caucus, exasperated by the administration’s handling of the economy, unexpectedly blocked one of his top priorities, using a legislative maneuver to postpone the approval of financial reform legislation by a key House committee.
Two buildings away, at a session of the Joint Economic Committee, Republicans escalated their attacks on Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner, including a call for his resignation.
“Conservatives agree that as point person, you failed. Liberals are growing in that consensus as well,” said Rep. Kevin Brady (R-Tex.). “For the sake of our jobs, will you step down from your post?”
Rep. Michael C. Burgess (R-Tex.) took a different tack. “I don’t think that you should be fired,” he told Geithner. “I thought you should have never been hired.”
Even Sen. Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.), a friend of the administration, suggested that Geithner had been inconsistent in addressing China’s practice of keeping its currency low against the dollar.
And Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.) said Wednesday on MSNBC that he thinks Geithner should step down, pointing to his handling of the aftermath of American International Group’s meltdown.
Across Capitol Hill, senators signaled their opposition to rushing regulatory reform. While some Democrats voiced reservations about parts of the bill, Republicans went further, faulting Sen. Christopher J. Dodd (D-Conn.) for pushing ahead before the roots of the crisis were understood.
Federal Reserve under scrutiny
Perhaps most troubling for the administration was that one of the few measures to succeed Thursday was an amendment by Rep. Ron Paul (R-Tex.) that would subject the Federal Reserve to unprecedented scrutiny. The amendment, which won bipartisan support in the House Financial Services Committee despite the reservations of administration officials, would allow the Government Accountability Office to audit all of the Fed’s operations, including its decisions on interest rates and its transactions with foreign central banks.
Paul and allies in both parties — more than 300 members of Congress have endorsed the measure — are looking to increase oversight of an institution they consider partly to blame for the financial crisis. Federal officials and many private economists worry that the amendment could make future central bank policymakers reluctant to take unpopular steps to prevent inflation or support the economy for fear of second-guessing by Congress and government auditors.
House panel votes to audit Federal Reserve
The House committee had been set to vote to send the final piece of its regulatory reform package to the House floor after months of debate. That is, until the committee’s chairman, Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.), told a shocked committee room that passage of the bill would be delayed until Dec. 1 because the Congressional Black Caucus wanted the administration to do more to help African American communities suffering in the economic decline.
Frank told committee members that black lawmakers were “frustrated by the response to the economic situation by the administration.” He said the caucus had no issues with the legislation itself. “They want obviously to continue to have some bargaining power with the administration,” he said after the hearing.
Worries over minority representation
The caucus itself did not publicly detail its concerns Thursday, but one member, Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), issued a statement: “The recession has created a unique systemic risk that threatens all parts of the African-American community, including the poor and the middle class.”
The caucus began discussing its concerns with Frank and the administration several weeks ago. Frank hosted a meeting Monday night between caucus members, Geithner and White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel.
“You’re talking about people whose constituents have been badly hammered by this,” Frank said. “Given the nature of this recession, there needs to be some more conversations.”
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Frank said the caucus had concerns about whether minorities were being fairly represented in helping carry out Treasury’s bailout programs and other federal efforts to resolve the financial crisis. The government has contracted out much of the work to Wall Street firms.
Congressional aides said the caucus’s concerns are similar to those of the Democratic Party’s liberal wing. Caucus members are pushing for legislation that would directly lead to new jobs by providing tax benefits, for example, that would provide incentives for home renovations and funding for new infrastructure projects. They also want to extend health-care and unemployment benefits.
Geitner takes a beating over AIG bailout
Meanwhile, Geithner was taking a beating as he urged Congress to pass regulatory reform as quickly as possible, arguing that delay would create uncertainty for businesses across the country. Lawmakers sharply criticized him for his role in the crisis during the tense Joint Economic Committee meeting. They were particularly critical of his involvement in the decision, as president of the New York Fed, to bail out AIG.
But Geithner pressed forward: “To ensure the vitality, the strength and the stability of our economy going forward, we must bring our system of financial regulation into the 21st century. Nobody in my job should ever be in the position again of having to come into a crisis like this without those basic authorities.”
Dodd, chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, chose the marbled Caucus Room in the Russell Senate Office Building — site of past hearings on Watergate, Pearl Harbor and the Wall Street abuses during the Great Depression — to open debate on a massive draft bill designed to achieve the most ambitious reworking of the financial system in decades.
“This is one of those moments in our nation’s history that compels us to be bold,” Dodd said.
But soon, ranking committee Republican Richard C. Shelby (Ala.) took the floor, and for 18 uninterrupted minutes he opined that nearly every element of Dodd’s bill was misinformed, uninformed, unnecessarily rushed or just plain flawed. “This committee has not done the necessary work to even begin discussing changes of this magnitude. Nevertheless, you have laid a bill before the committee,” Shelby said. “I will be opposing this legislation. Not because we disagree on its ends, but rather on its means.”
Shelby said Dodd was wrong not to conduct an investigation into the causes of the recent financial crisis before pushing forward with legislation. He said rather than ending the problem of institutions that are “too big to fail,” the current bill expands the government’s ability to bail out big banks. Shelby apologized for the length of his critique, expressed his hope that the two men might “yet find some common ground,” and yielded the floor.
“Well,” Dodd said in the morning’s only moment of levity, “I thank you for the endorsement.”