Charlie Rose with Carolyn Maloney, David Martin & Gregory Vistica; Robert Pittman; David Blaine (May 23, 1997)
California Conservative (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
After the unemployment numbers were published this morning, even the NYTimes can’t sugarcoat what’s happening. Also after this month’s unemployment figures were released, Rep. Carolyn Maloney said that, yes, they’d pulled the economy back from the brink but that there’s still a long ways to go. NO KIDDING!!! Here’s the thing from the NYTimes’ article [...]
Bigthink - Site Features Feed (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Grammy-award winning singer Carole King has been raising her voice on the radio lately – not in song, this time, but in a plea for the Rocky Mountains. King hails from the mountains of Idaho; at the apex of her career, the Brooklyn native went looking for a place with fewer people and more space, and settled on a county in the center of the Gem State. She’s been active in the fight to...
DownWithTyranny! (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Yesterday the House overwhelmingly passed-- though not without some tough fights-- Carolyn Maloney's H.R. 3639 , a much needed amendment to the Credit Card Accountability Responsibility and Disclosure Act of 2009. The idea was to establish an earlier effective date for the consumer protections inherent in the original bill. The credit card companies were none to keen to see that pass; and let me come...
France24 (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Amid complaints about credit card interest rate spikes and new fees, US lawmakers have voted overwhelmingly to speed up the implementation of sweeping new rules to guard against abusive practices. The House of Representatives approved the accelerated pace by an overwhelming 331-92 vote on Wednesday, but the legislation's fate in the Senate is unclear. "Card companies have redoubled many of the...
AMERICAblog (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
C'mon, this is getting silly. Since more than half of the public companies are below the $75 million mark, this has potential to be very damaging to investors who are already beaten down. Companies are already doing audits so it's questionable how painful this argument really is. There have been enough problems related to audits (and the auditors, in particular) but to weaken the system any more seems...
The Daily Transom (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
It looks like the elected officials who represent Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village are bracing for the complex to default, and they're already reminding the complex's lenders--Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac--about how the lenders themselves needed a bit of help last year. In a letter to Fannie and Freddie, the electeds--U.S. Representative Carolyn Maloney, Councilman Dan Garodnick, State Senator...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
The White House is quietly working to undercut a key post-Enron reform, significantly weakening protection for everyday investors and threatening the administration's image as a champion for financial regulatory reform. White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel has been telling Democratic members of the House Financial Services Committee that he supports amending the Investor Protection Act of 2009 --...
Daily Intelligencer - New York Magazine (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Penn Badgley celebrated his 23rd birthday on Halloween at 1Oak, where he ate a "Svedka birthday cake" (!) dressed as a "half-assed somebody." His girlfriend, Blake Lively, was dressed as a sexy flight attendant. Meanwhile, uncostumed co-star Leighton Meester performed with Weezer at the Hammerstein Ballroom, and some guy pulled a fake gun on Lindsay Lohan , to which she promptly...
NYDailyNews (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Virginia Maloney's mind was on her dad as she crossed the marathon finish line Sunday. The 22-year-old daughter of Rep. Carolyn Maloney ran wearing the number of her father Clifton, an avid runner who died last month after climbing the world's sixth-highest mountain.
U.S. PIRG Consumer Blog (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
If you've ever paid a $35 debit overdraft fee for a $4 latte and would have preferred that your bank reject the transaction, it's time to call Congress. If you didn't know that without your permission your bank signed you up for fee-laden "courtesy" overdraft instead of asking you whether you wanted the much better deal of an overdraft line of credit, it's time to call Congress. Put down...
Marc Ambinder (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
The Obama administration came into this summer with a sweeping plan for financial regulation--its proposals for how to prevent another meltdown after the mortgage crisis and the wave of bank failures that led up to President Obama's inauguration and continued to dominate discussion during his first months in office. Obama and Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner rolled out a package of proposals that included...
Mouth of the Potomac (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
If you know who late night cable sex show host Robin Byrd is, she’s a hard figure to forget. Unless, apparently, you’re Sen. Chuck Schumer, who had no idea of the identity of the sexual freedom crusader when she gave him $500 at a fund-raiser last summer , in spite of having met and posed with her at an awards dinner last year. That’s them, in the photo below, from Byrd’s Web...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
A leading House Democrat backed away Wednesday from a sweeping proposal that would have watered down a post-Enron reform, permanently exempting small publicly-traded companies from a requirement that they obtain outside audits of their internal controls. Rep. Carolyn Maloney, of New York, originally proposed that firms with market capitalization less than $75 million be exempt from a provision of the...
OpenMarket (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
After months of talk about solutions that would rev up job growth and the economy, today the House Financial Service Committee may finally adopt a true bipartisan stimulus. Led by Democratic Reps. Carolyn Maloney of New York and John Adler…
ChattahBox (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
(ChattahBox)—Two House Democrats, Reps. John Adler of New Jersey and Carolyn Maloney of New York, plan to introduce two pro-business amendments today to weaken much-needed reforms to protect investors from financial fraud, which were enacted in the wake of the sweeping Enron and WorldCom accounting scandals. The amendments would exempt small and medium sized firms [...]
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