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...Paulson's lesson is that there is always more money. That is true at least in a panic when the Congress and Administration have convinced themselves, perhaps appropriately, that pushing huge amounts of capital into the economy is the only way to halt the recession...
...consensus about keeping the economic system out of a depression. Time is more important than money, if the money is enough to make a good start. It would have been uncomfortable for Secretary Geithner to say out loud that he might well have to come back to Congress for more money. If the damage to credit markets gets worse, Congress will probably be cooperative even if it results in more fighting...
...give it bearing, and push it ahead,” says Hammond. “And I think that’s been a hallmark of his career, where he’s practiced that in a variety of forms, whether in courtrooms, in international forums, in Congress, or on the floor of the Senate...
...Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat, Rock Around the Clock hit the top of the music charts, and John Dingell was elected to Congress. The 29-year-old lawyer won a special election to replace his father, who died in office, and won a full term of his own the following year. On Feb. 11- after 26 more elections- the Michigan Democrat became the longest-serving House member in U.S. history. Dingell, now 82, spoke with TIME about his early days in Washington, the crisis in the American automobile industry and how he does...
Your father was a U.S. Representative before you, so in a way you grew up around Congress. What was your first memory of the Capitol...