Democrat Congressman Peter DeFazio (Oregon) told MSNBC that America needs a new economic team. Even Chuck Schumer says "the world economy is at stake" Congressmen Kevin Brady (R-TX), Sam Brownback (R-KS), and Michael Burgess (R-TX) actually spoke the minds of the American people. See video below. Peter DeFazio Rep. DeFazio appeared on The Edge and was asked: Should he [Geithner] stay in his...
Geithner To GOP: "You Gave This President An Economy Falling Off The Cliff" Brady fires back at Geithner being on the Federal Reserve at that time. Left unsaid, complete dictatorial control of both houses of congress by Democrats the last 2 years of Bush’s administration. “It is a great privilege to serve this president,” Geithner said. When does someone serve the American...
Kevin Brady (R) called on Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner to step down. Geithner rejected this call. The exchange gets a bit heated, as you may expect when someone basically tells someone else to their face essentially that they have been a miserable failure and should leave. Geithner countered by saying that 'by any measurement of the economic system it is substantially stronger then when Obama...
Maybe the Republicans are getting some spine after all. First, as you can see in this video clip my uncle sent me, Senator Lindsey Graham makes mincemeat out of Eric Holder , who can't even answer the questions. In another instance, Congressman Kevin Brady from Texas didn't accept tax-cheat Geithner's blame-Bush excuses : "In a fiery exchange at Thursday's Joint Economic Committee hearing with...
Republicans blaming the Obama administration for this horrendous recession is like an arsonist blaming the fire department - and yet, there's a certain usefulness to their attacks. After all, liberals complaining about the administration's economic policies got us nowhere. Maybe they'll actually listen when Republicans do it! Growing discontent over the economy and frustration with efforts to speed...
An audit of the Federal Reserve Bank would "substantially castrate the Fed so it cannot do what it was set up to do," Rep. Melvin Watt (D., N.C.) said yesterday, in an effort to tamp down a congressional uprising against the Bush/Obama economic team. This devastating exchange Thursday between Secretary of the Treasury Tim Geithner and Rep. Kevin Brady (R-Texas); along with weeks of close...
CBS’s Early Show on Friday completely ignored the grilling Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner received on Capitol Hill on Thursday and the calls for his resignation by members of Congress. ABC’s Good Morning America and NBC’s Today both covered the contentious exchanges. ABC’s Good Morning America provided the most coverage. Correspondent Bianna Golodryga observed that "a...
“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,” the Washington Post writes. “President Obama's allies in the Congressional Black Caucus, exasperated by the administration's handling of the economy, unexpectedly blocked one his...
There were some fireworks yesterday at a hearing held by the Joint Economic Committee between Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and Texas GOP Rep. Kevin Brady. In this video from CNBC.com, Brady plainly stated Geithner should take responsibility for the state of the economy today and all but said he should resign.
" World News " led with the Ft. Hood investigation. " Evening News " led with health care. " Nightly News " led with Treas. Sec. Tim Geithner 's Cong. testimony. Pols discussed Geithner's job performance 11/19 p.m. Rep. Kevin Brady (R-TX), on whether he expected it go get so "nasty": "No, I didn't. But, the truth is, sort of tired of blaming Bush for everyone....
REP. KEVIN BRADY (R-TX): You suck. I hate you. Everybody hates you. TIM GEITHNER: That's not true. Everybody hates the economic crisis, which is what I'm trying to fix. REP. KEVIN BRADY: No. In the last nine months you, personally, have fired millions of people from their jobs. I think you need a hobby. One that does [...]
By Elaine S. Povich Frustrations boiled over today (Thursday) at Treasury Secretary Geithner’s appearance before the Joint Committee on Taxation, with Republican members lambasting him for a sluggish economic recovery and calling on him to resign. U.S. Rep. Kevin Brady (R-TX) Rep. Kevin Brady, R-Texas, led the charge against Geithner, blaming him for a litany of problems, including [...]
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Congressman Michael Burgess scalded Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner during a fiery hearing on Capitol Hill this morning, telling the former New York Fed chief that he should never have been hired and demanding that the TARP program come to an abrupt end, shortly after GOP Rep. Kevin Brady had called on Geithner to resign. “The public has lost all confidence in your ability to do the job,”...
In a heated exchange during a hearing of the Joint Economic Committee of Congress, Rep. Kevin Brady, Republican of Texas and the top House Republican on the panel, said Geithner had failed as the Obama administration's point-man on the...
Published by WallStreetWeather.net There has become an increasing clamor that has reached a fervent pitch this week as a handful of Republicans and Democrats are calling for Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner to resign. Yesterday Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-OR) called on Geithner to resign. Testifying today before a Joint Economic Committee hearing on financial regulatory reform, Geithner was verbally assaulted...
Kevin Brady is just thankful to be drafted, no matter where it was. All spring he was told he was a third-round talent by Major League Baseball scouts, but the right-handed Gaithersburg pitcher still didn’t know where he would be selected this past weekend. The night before the draft, the Red Sox called his home and said they would draft him in the third round if he would accept their signing bonus.
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