Topic: U.S. Government
President Barack Obama looked to energize his Democratic allies Saturday with an in-person appeal for his historic health care overhaul on the eve of a cliffhanger vote on the sweeping legislation. Obama's 11th-hour push on behalf of the bill, which would bring the world's richest country closer than ever to guaranteeing health coverage for all of its citizens ...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - A former Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc <LEHMQ.PK> executive warned months before the bank's collapse that senior management was potentially misleading investors and regulators about the value of the firm's assets, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday. In a May, 2008 letter addressed to then-Chief Financial Officer Erin Callan, Chief Risk Officer ...
A top House Democrat says party leaders are unlikely to cut a deal with abortion opponents to pass President Barack Obama's health care overhaul. Rep. Henry Waxman tells The Associated Press that "the likely outcome" is that Speaker Nancy Pelosi will move ahead without the ...
