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Finance Reform = Government Takeover James F. Davis, May 5, 2010 It’s time to take our heads out of the sand about the agenda of President Obama and his insider supporters. Having passed legislation that will give government bureaucrats the power over who gets medical care and who doesn’t, he has now set his sights on taking control over who gets money and who doesn’t—of every person in the USA through the alleged “Financial Reform Bill.” In effect, if this Trojan horse legislation passes in its present form, the President will have control over every citizen’s savings and every enterprise’s...

Too Big To Fail? Melissa Barnhart, May 5, 2010 Rep. Ed Royce (R-Calif.), and James Gattuso, senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation, discussed the pitfalls in Connecticut Sen. Chris Dodd’s (pdf) financial regulatory reform bill during the Tuesday, April 27, Bloggers Briefing in Washington D.C. As of Wednesday, Dodd, the Chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, and Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) the ranking Republican on the Banking Committee, agreed to take the debate of the bill to the Senate floor on Thursday, after Republicans won what concessions they could get from the Democrats. Among them, the removal of the $50...