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December 18th, 2008Spending chief
Audit rips spending by ex-chief of Citizens Property Insurance Corp
BATON ROUGE -- The former head of Louisiana's state-run homeowners insurance program charged taxpayers for $106,579 in questionable expenses from 2003 to 2006, including cigars ... (more...)
GAO chief rebukes spending discipline - Samuel Loewenberg - Politico ...
Few people know the underbelly of gov't spending better than David Walker who admits "Washington is badly broken." (more...)
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Audit rips spending by ex-chief of Citizens- NOLA.com
BATON ROUGE -- The former head of Louisiana's state-run homeowners insurance program charged taxpayers for $106,579 in questionable expenses from 2003 to 2006, including cigars ... (more...)
The Columbus Dispatch : Chiefs of police unit told to halt spending
The Columbus Dispatch - Columbus, Ohio's Daily Newspaper ... A state agency has ordered the Ohio Association of Chiefs of Police to stop spending homeland-security money while a ... (more...)
Obama plans to overhaul counterterrorism apparatus - Boston Globe
WASHINGTON? President-elect Barack Obama is considering dissolving a White House-based homeland security panel created in the wake of 9/11 and will restructure counterterrorism policy under intelligence veteran John Brennan. The White House ... (more...)
TODAY: Obama says Congress must act boldly and now on economy - Charleston Daily Mail
WASHINGTON -- President-elect Barack Obama implored Congress to "act boldly and act now'' on Thursday to fix an economy growing perilously weaker, and leading lawmakers set an informal goal of mid-February for enacting tax cuts and government ... (more...)
UPDATE 2-Obama proposes Fed to support muni market - FXStreet.com
NEW YORK, Jan 8 (Reuters) - President-elect Barack Obama proposed on Thursday having the U.S. Federal Reserve buy municipal bonds to cut lofty borrowing costs for cash-strapped cities and states. The facility would be similar to a backstop program ... (more...)
Wagoner: Retiree benefits safe - Detroit Free Press
General Motors Chairman and CEO Rick Wagoner and United Auto Workers President Ron Gettelfinger prefaced upcoming negotiations -- set to take place Monday -- in a joint interview with Matt Lauer of the "Today" show this morning. Lauer made a stop at ... (more...)
Report slams Pentagon nuke oversight - Katu.com
WASHINGTON (AP) - A Pentagon advisory group plans to release a report Thursday criticizing the Defense Department for lack of focus on its nuclear mission and recommending more oversight, a senior defense official said, after a series of embarrassing ... (more...)