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Originally Posted by peaceandlove
Dantheman62 are you out there?
Is this your district? 
My Congressman Is Ignoring Me on H.R. 1207
Posted by jbstoudenmire on 04/29/09 7:46 PM
Here in Ga-02, we are not having much luck with our congressman, Sanford Bishop (D). I have emailed him countless times, dropped off petitions this past week, and called his D.C. offices many times. All responses I get to his emails are automatic; I never receive the guaranteed hard copy response in the mail, all three times I have called this week the aide had no idea if Bishop has looked over H.R. 1207, and when I dropped off the petitions, I was not given the chance to engage in conversation- the aide just took the petitions and said goodbye. Anyone who has a little extra time needs to pressure Sanford Bishop from Ga Congressional District 2 (1-202-225-3631).
Source: http://www.campaignforliberty.com/blog.php?view=17159 |
I'm sorry pandL, I didn't see this until now! I really don't follow politics, let alone Georgia good ol boy baptist bible thumper politics. I did see this article today on another matter though!...............
Investigators say Fed threatened bank CEO
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Federal Reserve threatened to force the ouster of Bank of America CEO Kenneth Lewis if he didn't follow through with plans to buy Merrill Lynch & Co., Republicans said Wednesday after reviewing internal documents.
Republicans also said there was evidence that the government tried to restrict information related to the merger from being publicly released.
However, none of the documents showed that the government explicitly instructed Bank of America to hide Merrill Lynch's losses from shareholders, they said.
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee is investigating claims that top government officials, including then-Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, urged Lewis to go through with the acquisition and not disclose to shareholders the details of Merrill Lynch's deteriorating financial state.
Lewis was scheduled to testify on Thursday before the panel, which is chaired by Rep. Edolphus Towns, D-N.Y.
Bank of America has received $45 billion from the government's $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program. As part of that money, the bank received $20 billion in January after Lewis requested it to help offset mounting losses at Merrill Lynch.
According to an internal memo prepared by the committee's Republican staff, Paulson and Bernanke "put a gun to the head" of Lewis and Bank of America's board of directors to force the merger even though Lewis "felt it was his duty to his shareholders to try his luck in the legal system and back out of the deal."
As proof, Republicans cite several documents including an e-mail by an employee at the Richmond Federal Reserve who said Bernake had made it clear that if Bank of America backed out and needed financial assistance, "management is gone."
Just a few weeks after the deal was completed, Bank of America's fourth-quarter earnings report showed the hit its balance sheet took on the Merrill Lynch transaction, making Lewis the target of shareholder anger.
In January, Bank of America reported a $2.39 billion fourth-quarter loss and Merrill Lynch disclosed a loss of more than $15 billion.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Invest...-15495647.html