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Calculated Risk (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
While we wait for the FDIC ... it could get real busy ... From the Chicago Tribune: U.S. set to seize FBOP, congressmen say (ht Josh) Federal regulators are expected to seize Friday night the banks owned by Oak Park-based FBOP Corp., the troubled owner of Park National Bank of Chicago and eight other U.S. banks, people familiar with the situation say. A takeover would occur even after several U.S....
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Reno Gazette Journal (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
WASHINGTON (AP) - For Democrats determined to get a health care bill, Sen. Roland Burris is like the house guest who couldn't be refused, won't soon be leaving and poses a plausible threat of ruining holiday dinner.
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Marathon Pundit (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
Illinois' embarrassment of a Senator, Roland Burris (D-Blagojevich) says he will only vote for a health care reform bill if it includes a public option. Max Baucus (D-MT), the author of the health care legislation that made it out of the Senate Finance Committee, says a bill that includes a public option can not pass the Senate. Interesting. Technorati tags: Blagojevich Illinois Politics Illinois Democrats...
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Marathon Pundit (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
The director of the 2010, Robert Groves, came to Capitol Hill yesterday to talk about the upcoming population count. Senator John McCain (R-AZ) praised Groves for cutting ties to disgraced community organizing group ACORN. Who defended ACORN? Why, Sen. Roland Burris (D-IL), the man appointed to the Senate by former Governor Rod Blagojevich, who goes on trial for corruption next summer. Politics Daily...
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HolyCoast.com (Free subscription) | 10/02/2009
From Illinois Senator Roland Burris (h/t Bret Baier): "We have to look what happened in the past years and what the image of America over the past 8 years and the world. And so Obama has not had the time to turn that around on the world stage. And Chicago now is a victim of all that negativism.. created over the past 8 years." I'm sure Burris is just disappointed that he won't get to carve...
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The Swamp (Free subscription) | 09/21/2009
by Mark Silva Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois, the No. 2 leader of the Senate, senior senator from Illinois and one of seven senators who voted against cutting off federal housing funds for ACORN, the community organization enmeshed in controversy over its workers' activities, says he'd like to see a "trial'' before there's any "hanging.'' "I'm from one of those traditional law schools...
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Freedom's Lighthouse (Free subscription) | 09/17/2009
Here is video of Fox News' Griff Jenkins confronting two more of the seven U.S. Senators who voted to protect ACORN and preserve their funding. This time he found Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders as well as Democrat Sen. Pat Leahy. Both of them defended their votes for ACORN. Yesterday, Jenkins confronted Illinois Democrat Sen. Roland Burris . The Senate vote was 83-7 to block additional funding from...
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The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 09/16/2009
WASHINGTON — The House ethics committee said Wednesday it will put off for now an expanded investigation into whether Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. or his representatives tried to buy President Barack Obama's former Senate seat. The committee revealed that the deferred investigation now includes allegations that Jackson, a Democrat, improperly used his staff in Washington and Chicago to mount a public...
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Uncle Sam's Cabin (Free subscription) | 09/16/2009
The Senate dealt a blow to ACORN Monday evening, voting to deny the Department of Housing and Urban Development from granting funds to the community organization. Sen. Mike Johanns’s (R-Neb.) amendment to the appropriations bill providing funding to the department passed in a bipartisan, 83-7 vote. It’s the latest in a series of recent setbacks for ACORN, which has come under increasing...
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Marathon Pundit (Free subscription) | 09/15/2009
Yesterday the US Senate voted 83-7 in favor of an amendment by Sen. Mike Johanns (R-NE) to strip ACORN of funding in the Transportation, Housing and Urban Development appropriations bill. Who voted to keep the cash train flowing to ACORN? •Sheldon Whitehouse, D-RI •Roland Burris, D-IL •Dick Durbin, D-IL •Bernie Sanders, I-VT (Sanders caucuses with the Democrats) •Patrick Leahy,...
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The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 09/05/2009
CHICAGO — The brother of ousted Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich says he isn't a criminal and the federal wire fraud charges against him are unfair. The Chicago Sun-Times published an interview Friday with 54-year-old Tennessee businessman Robert Blagojevich. The newspaper says he was in Chicago to visit his son. His wife, Julie Blagojevich, also says she believes the government indicted her husband...
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Marathon Pundit (Free subscription) | 08/30/2009
When you take a long trip, things pile up at home, which is why I won't be able to attend John McCain's visit to nearby Glenview, where he will endorse Rep. Mark Kirk for the U.S. Senate. Kirk, a Highland Park Republican, has been leading in the polls over the Democratic front runner for the office, State Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias. That seat is currently held by Roland Burris, who was appointed to...
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pjstar.com Tri-County RSS (Free subscription) | 08/30/2009
GateHouse News Service asked four Illinois congressmen five key questions about the health care issue to give readers more insight into how their representatives view the debate. • Sen. Dick Durbin, D- Ill. • Sen. Roland Burris, D-Ill. • Rep. Aaron Schock, R-Peoria • Rep. Phil Hare, R-Rock Island
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Second City Cop (Free subscription) | 08/27/2009
Who the hell has been whispering into Hoffman's ear? Chicago's corruption-fighting Inspector General David Hoffman has resigned to enter the Democratic primary for the U.S. Senate, removing what appeared to be a giant thorn from Mayor Daley's side. Hoffman enters a Democratic field vying to replace U.S. Sen. Roland Burris that already includes Illinois Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias and Cheryle Jackson,...
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