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Stiglitz: The Too-big-to-fail Institutions Have Succeeded in Managing Their Risk

selise — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 23:59:20 +0000

Just starting now, JEC hearing: Too Big to Fail or Too Big to Save? Examining the Systemic Threats of Large Financial Institutions (live webcast at the link) Witnesses: Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel Prize recipient, 2001; University Professor, Columbia University; former chairman, Council of Economic Advisers Simon Johnson, Ronald A. Kurtz Professor of Entrepreneurship, MIT’s Sloan School of Management; Senior [...]

Dear Congress: Your Hearings Suck

selise — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 02:44:25 +0000

Today was the day I finally lost it. After hundreds of hours spent on Congressional committee hearings (listening to audio streams or reading transcripts), after over 40 oxdown hearing diaries since September and more than 100 hearing postings before that (starting when scarecrow asked me to include hearing info in the thread of his Monday [...]

Hearing List for week of Mar 2, 2009

selise — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 04:45:17 +0000

last updated 3/5/09 Live streaming is expected at most committee websites (see links below) and CSPAN (schedule). Direct realplayer links are: CSPAN, CSPAN-2, CSPAN-3, CSPAN Radio. … Tuesday, March 3, 2009 9:30 am - Senate Armed Services Hearings to examine acquisition of major weapons systems by the Department of Defense. 9:30 am - House Appropriations Interior Subcommittee On the Department of Interior [...]

Dilbert on the Bailout Hearings

selise — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 10:41:03 +0000

dilbert on the bailout hearings (h/t Barry at The Big Picture)

Hearing List for week of Feb 23, 2009

selise — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 21:39:11 +0000

last updated 2/26/09 Live streaming is expected at most committee websites (see links below) and CSPAN (schedule). Direct realplayer links are: CSPAN, CSPAN-2, CSPAN-3, CSPAN Radio. … Monday, February 23, 2009 2:00 pm - Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Hearings to examine principle of integrative health, focusing on a path to health care reform. Tuesday, February 24, 2009 9 am [...]

Hearing List for week of Feb 9, 2009

selise — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 04:18:39 +0000

last updated 2/12/09 Live streaming is expected at most committee websites (see links below) and CSPAN (schedule). Direct realplayer links are: CSPAN, CSPAN-2, CSPAN-3, CSPAN Radio. … Tuesday, February 10, 2009 10 am - House Energy and Commerce Organizational meeting 10 am - Senate Budget Key Issues and Budget Options for Health Reform Witness: Dr. Douglas W. Elmendorf — Director, Congressional Budget Office 10 am [...]

Hearing List for week of Feb 2, 2009

selise — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 03:55:13 +0000

last updated 2/6/09 Live streaming is expected at committee websites (see links below) and CSPAN (schedule). Direct realplayer links are: CSPAN, CSPAN-2, CSPAN-3, CSPAN Radio. … Tuesday, February 3, 2009 1 pm - House Agriculture (cspan archive) Hearing on reviewing derivatives legislation. Witnesses Panel 1: Mr. Tom Buis, President, National Farmers Union, Washington, D.C. Mr. John Damgard, President, Futures Industry Association, Washington, D.C. Mr. Michael [...]

Hearing List for week of Jan 26, 2009

selise — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 15:58:46 +0000

last updated 1/29/09 Live streaming is expected at committee websites (see links below) and CSPAN (schedule). Direct realplayer links are: CSPAN, CSPAN-2, CSPAN-3, CSPAN Radio. … Monday, January 26, 2009 5 pm - House Rules Emergency Meeting: S. 181 - Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009 H.R. 1 - The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (General Debate [...]

Hearing List for week of Jan 19, 2009

selise — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 12:26:17 +0000

last updated 1/22/09 Live streaming expected at committee websites and CSPAN (schedule). Direct real player links are: CSPAN, CSPAN-2, CSPAN-3, CSPAN Radio. … Wednesday, January 21, 2009 10 am - Senate Budget Hearing on Addressing Short- and Long-Term Fiscal Challenges Hon. Alice M. Rivlin, Director, Greater Washington Research, The Brookings Institution Dr. Robert D. Reischauer, President, Urban Institute Dr. Rudolph G. Penner, Senior [...]

Hearing List for week of Jan 12, 2009

selise — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 05:12:10 +0000

last updated 1/21/09 Tuesday, January 13, 2009 9 am - Senate Budget (cspan video archive) Nominations: Dr. Peter R. Orszag, of Massachusetts, to be Director of the Office of Management and Budget Robert L. Nabors II, of New Jersey, to be Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget 9:30 am - Senate Foreign Relations (cspan video archive) Nomination: The Honorable Hillary R. [...]