Tag: proper oversight

This really isn’t that shocking of a news story: The office of Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal filed a friend of the court brief in federal court Monday supporting the removal of President Barack Obama’s six-month deepwater drilling moratorium. A federal judge is scheduled to hear arguments Monday from companies seeking an end to the moratorium. […]

I can’t say that this comes as any shock: In the six weeks since lawmakers approved the Treasury’s massive bailout of financial firms, the government has poured money into the country’s largest banks, recruited smaller banks into the program and repeatedly widened its scope to cover yet other types of businesses, from insurers to consumer […]