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		<title>Single Payer Universal Healthcare Gets a Hearing Today at 10:30am</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 11:32:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Congratulations to all who have worked to demand that Single Payer Universal Healthcare be included in discussions on healthcare reform! Some cracks in the edifice of exclusion are beginning to show.
10:30 am &#8211; Examining the Single Payer Health Care Option
House Committee on Education and Labor Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee Hearing
Witnesses: 

U.S. Rep. John [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stiglitz: The Too-big-to-fail Institutions Have Succeeded in Managing Their Risk</title>
		<link>http://www.netrootsmass.net/2009/04/stiglitz-the-too-big-to-fail-institutions-have-succeeded-in-managing-their-risk/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2009 23:59:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just starting now, JEC hearing: Too Big to Fail or Too Big to Save? Examining the Systemic Threats of Large Financial Institutions (live webcast at the link)
Witnesses:

Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel Prize recipient, 2001; University Professor, Columbia University; former chairman, Council of Economic Advisers
Simon Johnson, Ronald A. Kurtz Professor of Entrepreneurship, MIT&#8217;s Sloan School of Management; Senior [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hearing List for Thursday, February 12, 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2009 10:50:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lots of hearings to choose from today, but after the last 2 days of hearings I think I need a break today. Live streaming is expected at most committee websites (see links below) and CSPAN (schedule).  Direct realplayer links are: CSPAN, CSPAN-2, CSPAN-3, CSPAN Radio.
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9:30 am &#8211; Senate Indian Affairs
An oversight hearing to examine [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hearings today: TVA&#8217;s poison and Daschle on health</title>
		<link>http://www.netrootsmass.net/2009/01/hearings-today-tvas-poison-and-daschle-on-health/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2009 15:11:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>selise</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just a quick note on two important hearings today (see weekly list for more of today&#8217;s hearings):
10 am &#8211; Senate Environment and Public Works
Oversight Hearing on the Tennessee Valley Authority and the Recent Major Coal Ash Spill
Witnesses:
Panel 1:

Tom Kilgore, President and CEO, Tennessee Valley Authority

Panel 2:

Stephen A. Smith DVM, Executive Director, Southern Alliance for Clean [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thomas &#8220;Suck on This&#8221; Friedman to brief Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources</title>
		<link>http://www.netrootsmass.net/2009/01/thomas-suck-on-this-friedman/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2009 14:43:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>selise</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For anyone who has ever wondered why our Senators sound so idiotic when they attempt to discuss important issues of the day, today&#8217;s hearing provides one answer. Thomas &#34;Suck on This&#34; Friedman, whose only qualifications are to have gotten everything disastrously wrong as well as&#160;being a &#34;pretty hideous human being, one which all good people [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hearing on the Madoff Ponzi and the SEC</title>
		<link>http://www.netrootsmass.net/2009/01/madoff-ponzi-and-the-sec/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 18:18:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>selise</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The United States Congress&#8217; House Committee on Financial Services is now calling the Madoff scandal a Ponzi scheme. Hugh calls it &#34;a metaphor for the current financial system and its failures.&#34; From his Scandals List (my bold):
Also on December 11, 2008, Bernard Madoff, a former chairman of the NASDAQ was arrested for perpetrating a fraud [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Treasury&#8217;s Kashkari to testify in response to GAO report</title>
		<link>http://www.netrootsmass.net/2008/12/treasurys-kashkari-to-testify-in-response-to-gao-report/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 10:55:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>selise</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When TARP czar Neel Kashkari testified last month before Kucinich&#8217;s Domestic Policy Subcommittee, in what I can only describe as an example of hell freezing over, Kuchinich and Issa joined forces to expose Kashkari and more generally the entire TARP program as a sham. Favorite line from that hearing was:
kucinich to kashkari: no one questions [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Waxman throws Rs a bone &#8211; hearing on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac</title>
		<link>http://www.netrootsmass.net/2008/12/waxman-fannie-mae-and-freddie-mac/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2008 14:07:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>selise</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Republicans on Waxman&#8217;s House Oversight and Government Reform committee have been complaining about the need to investigate how Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac caused the collapse of the Housing market. Today is the promised hearing. I predict it will come close, if not set a record, for Republican bloviating.
10 am &#8211; House Oversight and Government [...]]]></description>
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		<title>House Agriculture hearing on credit derivatives and the U.S. economy &#8211; pt 3</title>
		<link>http://www.netrootsmass.net/2008/12/house-agriculture-hearing-on-credit-derivatives-and-the-us-economy-pt3/</link>
		<comments>http://www.netrootsmass.net/2008/12/house-agriculture-hearing-on-credit-derivatives-and-the-us-economy-pt3/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2008 13:20:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>selise</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today at 1 pm the House Agriculture committee will hold it&#8217;s third hearing in this year&#8217;s series on the role of credit derivatives in the U.S. economy.
In the November 20th House Agriculture hearing, we heard that Eric R. Dinallo (Superintendent, State of New York, Insurance Department) had backed off of his plan to regulated CDSs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hearings on the Auto Industry and a Look at the Jobs Numbers</title>
		<link>http://www.netrootsmass.net/2008/12/hearings-on-the-auto-industry-and-a-look-at-the-jobs-numbers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.netrootsmass.net/2008/12/hearings-on-the-auto-industry-and-a-look-at-the-jobs-numbers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2008 11:50:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>selise</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Barney Frank&#8217;s Financial Services Committee will hold a follow up of yesterday&#8217;s Senate Banking Hearing with industry CEOs and the UAW, while the Joint Economic Committee will be meeting to review November employment numbers  and developments in the labor market more generally.
9:30 am &#8211; Financial Services Committee
Hearing on &#34;Review of Industry Plans to Stabilize [...]]]></description>
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