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Effort to Rein In Fannie, Freddie Gains Steam Treasury Puts Muscle Behind Bipartisan Push for Greater Oversight of Firms
By Jeffrey H. Birnbaum and David Cho Washington Post Staff Writers Wednesday, April 23, 2008; D01
Past fights over efforts to boost regulation have been bare-knuckled affairs. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac assembled two of the most expensive and formidable lobbying operations in Washington and were able to stop almost any attempt at regulation. "They really had this place locked down, and everybody was afraid of them," Hagel recalled.
25 posted on
09/30/2008 7:13:16 PM PDT by
SBD1
To: SBD1
Since I set up this quick website already, you are more than welcome to use it as a central depository for the documents and links to the various information.
Here is the
link
If you are interested, I can set you up with a username and password. During the 2004 Presidential election, I did something similar for the with
this website for Swift Boat Veterans. To this day, I host that site in their honor free of charge.
SBD
26 posted on
09/30/2008 7:21:22 PM PDT by
SBD1
To: SBD1
27 posted on
10/01/2008 12:37:00 AM PDT by
Arthur Wildfire! March
(Fannie + Freddie = Democrat Cronies [Dodd and Obama -- the LegisLOOTers])
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