Gort42 (Free subscription) | yesterday
Trying to usurp Federal immigration law is one one thing but messing with the God given constitutional right of the people to have satellite TV is beyond the pale. Last Febuary Hazleton imposed a $10 satellite dish inspection fee that has been challenged in court as violation of Federal law. City solicitor Christopher Slusser sensibly doesn't want to defend the city in yet another lawsuit with the...
Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
The U.S. House of Representatives will likely pass Rep. Paul Kanjorski's (D., Pa.) break-'em-up bill, which calls for regulators to split dangerously big and financially complex companies into safer pieces, so they don't have to be bailed out like American International Group Inc. or General Motors Corp.
1490 NewsBlog (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
At a briefing on Capitol Hill today, members of the Pennsylvania Congressional Delegation had an opportunity to learn how the Federal Highway Administration plans to evaluate the current application from the Turnpike Commission to toll Interstate 80. Congressman Glen Thompson delivered a three-inch thick binder of news articles from the state on the different opinions on the tolling plan and the recent...
Who Hijacked Our Country (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
The health insurance industry has gotten a pretty shitty return on their investment. They’ve spent hundreds of billions of dollars bribing Congress, creating a bunch of slippery TV ads, and using phony “grass roots” front groups to scare Americans about “Death Panels!” and “government takeover!” And what have they got to show for it? After months and months...
Market Watch (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) - Too large and overly interconnected financial institutions could be broken up if a proposed council of regulators argues that their collapse would put the American economic system at risk, according to legislation approved Wednesday by the House Financial Services Committee. "Financial firms that want to play in a casino need to have their own resources to cover their...
DealBreaker (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee. So Rep. Paul Kanjorski (D-Backwoods, Pa.) has unveiled his homage to the Morgenthau Plan . His proposed amendment to the financial regulation reform package offers a simple solution to the "too big...
Market Watch (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) - Too large and overly interconnected financial institutions could be broken up if a proposed council of regulators argues that their collapse would put the American economic system at risk, according to legislation approved Wednesday by the House Financial Services Committee. "Financial firms that want to play in a casino need to have their own resources to cover their...
Perspective Journal: News and Polit (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Politico – “No firm should be considered to be ‘too big to fail,’” Rep. Paul Kanjorski says. No tags for this post.
Market Watch (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) - Too large and overly interconnected financial institutions could be broken up if an expected council of regulators argues that their collapse would put the American economic system at risk, according to legislation introduced Wednesday by a key lawmaker. "No firm should be considered to be 'too big to fail.' Financial firms that want to play in a casino need to have...
Vox Verax (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
By Rep. Paul Kanjorski RealClearPolitics "Too big to fail" must die. I am preparing legislation to empower federal regulators to rein in and dismantle financial firms that are so large, inter-connected, or risky that their collapse would put at risk the entire American economic system, even if those firms currently appear to be well-capitalized and healthy. Never again should American taxpayers...
Denver Post (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Seven Wall Street lobbyists trooped to Capitol Hill this week, hoping to convince Rep. Paul Kanjorski's staff that his plan to dismantle large financial firms was a bad idea. They walked out with a sobering conclusion, according to the accounts of two attendees who requested anonymity because the meeting was private.
Patriot Room (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
I live in PA-11. Paul E. Kanjorski (D) has repped this district since 1985. He won last cycle by just three points. Although I am slightly out of there, the majority of his district is in NEPA - northeastern Pennsylvania. Scranton, Wilkes-Barre, Hazleton: The region the coal companies trashed and left generations ago. If you think the unions and mafia are not monozygotic twins, then you don't come...
DealBreaker (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
The populist rabble-rousing on Capitol Hill is getting ominous . "I see it as one of our potentially last chances to get control, particularly of financial institutions in their mega-forms, before they take over the world," Rep. Paul Kanjorski said of the banking regulation reforms proposed by the White House and congressional leaders. But for Kanjorski and Rep. Earl Perlmutter, both Democrats,...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
Nov. 12 (Bloomberg) -- Seven Wall Street lobbyists trooped to Capitol Hill on Nov. 9, hoping to convince Representative Paul Kanjorski's staff that his plan to dismantle large financial firms was a bad idea. They walked out with a sobering conclusion, according to the accounts of two attendees who requested anonymity because the meeting was private. Not only was Kanjorski serious, he planned to offer...
2008 Democratic Convention Watch (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
Lou Dobbs has hung it up. I think I know where he might be going: Hazelton, Pennsylvania. It appears that Lou "Get Every Immigrant OUT of here" Barletta is planning on challenging Paul Kanjorski. Again. Barletta is the mayor of Hazelton, has been for almost a decade. He's the one, you might remember, who became Dobbs' darling when, in 2006, he spearheaded incendiary and illegal legislation...
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