The AIG Bonus Debacle: Channel Your Anger
Posted by Jim Harper
In early February here on this blog, I wrote favorably about the somewhat fanciful idea of televising the conference committee on the economic stimulus bill.
If conference committee meetings were televised, members of the conference committee would be constrained to explain what they were doing and why. That would be a good thing.
Well, the conference [...]
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A Televised Conference Committee?
Posted by Jim Harper
Republicans in the House and Senate are calling for the conference committee on the economic stimulus bill to be televised. It’s a fascinating idea.
A conference committee is a meeting among representatives of both the House and the Senate to work out differences between the two bodies on similar legislation. Both the [...]
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