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...more bluntly two days later: "Cobos cannot be trusted with the management of public affairs. The Vice President has become Cobos Iscariot." The President's supporters are concerned Argentina's veep might make use of the President's absence during an upcoming trip to China to call a special session of Congress and reject a recent executive decree ordering the seizure of central bank reserves to pay off part of Argentina's voluminous foreign debt. "Cobos has clearly become the leader of the opposition and has been making use of the vice presidency to block the legislative bills of this...
...only female Speaker, Nancy Pelosi, finishing her third year as leader of an energetic Democratic majority, but she is doing it with style, creativity and persistence. Pelosi has risen to the challenge offered by the economic instability and tumult of a new Administration to preside over a historic session of Congress. If that doesn't make her Person of the Year, I don't know what could...
...Crimson got plenty of opportunities in the extra session, getting off four shots and gaining two power plays, but couldn’t find a way to bring home its first victory...
...This was the fourth annual summit, but it may have been the most fortuitously timed of the lot - occurring after Copenhagen, before the U.S. Senate begins its real work on climate legislation this year and just as investors begin to climb out of the recession. The feeling at the session was hopeful - investors, especially large-scale institutional funds that need to worry about the long term, are ready to bet on cutting carbon - but impatient. The key, as many of them see it, is a policy that would make carbon more expensive, leveling the playing field so that competing technologies...
...began discussing similar restrictions at the federal level, nervous investors sold off the pawnshop stocks. When the most restrictive proposal - a 36% cap proposed by Senator Richard Durbin, a Democrat from Illinois - failed to win support, the shares rebounded. However, the Senator has reintroduced the bill in the current session of Congress, and it could ultimately find its way into financial-industry reform. More worrisome to investors is the potential power of a Consumer Financial Protection Agency, part of the financial-reform bill recently passed by the House and under consideration in the Senate. Under the current versions...