Topic: Maurice Hinchey
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Rep. Maurice Hinchey (D-N.Y.) will not seek reelection this year, his office announced Wednesday. The 10-term lawmaker plans to formally make the...
Image via Wikipedia. . Representative Maurice Hinchey, Democrat of New York, introduced a bill aimed at limiting interest rates for credit cards...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd said on Thursday it would be " pretty difficult" to reinstate 1930s-era Glass-Steagall limits on banking as proposed in two bills in Congress.His remarks suggested an uphill climb ahead for legislation, filed ...
become "a policy enshrining crony capitalism" in the oft-quoted phrase, or does the argument against breaking up TBTF banks have merit? When voices were clamoring to split up large banks last month, Alan Greenspan kicked the can down the road, so to ...
House members ask Interior secretary to protect Utah red rocks lands until Congress can actEighty-nine House members sent a letter to Interior Secretary Ken Salazar asking him to protect 9.4 million acres of red rocks lands in Utah while Congress works ...
GAO finding bolsters efforts in Congress to block privatization of nearly 6,000 federal jobsThe Government Accountability Office says Defense Department plans to privatize nearly 400 public works jobs at West Point military academy would result in a waste of taxpayer dollars ...
New White House helicopters will cost less than a cancelled 13-billion-dollar program that proved too expensive and " useless," the Pentagon said on Friday.Lawmakers this week scrapped a long-running project to build the VH-71 presidential helicopter, backing a request from President Barack ...
2009-2010 America's Red Rock Wilderness Act of 2009 A bill to designate as wilderness certain Federal portions of the red rock canyons of the Colorado Plateau and the Great Basin Deserts in the State of Utah for the benefit of present ...
House panel votes to block privatization of jobs at West Point, other military installationsA House subcommittee voted on Thursday to block Pentagon plans to potentially privatize thousands of civilian jobs at military installations, including West Point military academy.The move could keep ...